{"id":10843,"date":"2021-03-14T07:11:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T07:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2021-03-14T07:11:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T07:11:48","slug":"10843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/10843\/10843\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Azhar\u2019s Sheikh to travel to Iraq soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Iraqi Sunni Waqf Court: Al-Azhar\u2019s Sheikh &amp; an Egyptian religious delegation to travel to Iraq soon<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cSaad Kambash,\u201d the head of the Iraqi Sunni Waqf (Endowment) Court, said today (Saturday) that an Egyptian religious delegation headed by Sheikh of Al-Azhar will travel to Iraq soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kambash said that during his official visit to Egypt, he met with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, and handed him two letters of invitation from Mustafa al-Kazemi and Muhammad al-Halbousi to travel to Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that Sheikh of Al-Azhar promised to travel to Iraq as soon as possible, he said: \u201cSheikh of Al-Azhar has expressed a great desire to advance his visit to Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The head of Iraq\u2019s Sunni Endowment Court noted that an invitation would soon be sent to Mohammed Mokhtar Gomaa, Egypt\u2019s Minister of Endowments and the head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, as well as Mufti Shawki Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the\u00a0Iraqi Sunni Waqf (Endowment) Court had previously met with Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyeb, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar in Cairo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"l53y1QKVpg\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/10797\/pope-francis-meets-grand-ayatollah-ali-al-sistani\/\">Pope Francis meets Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Pope Francis meets Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani&#8221; &#8212; Shia Studies&#039; World Assembly\" src=\"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/10797\/pope-francis-meets-grand-ayatollah-ali-al-sistani\/embed\/#?secret=7BPVp4OzFf#?secret=l53y1QKVpg\" data-secret=\"l53y1QKVpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi Sunni Waqf Court: Al-Azhar\u2019s Sheikh &amp; an Egyptian religious delegation to travel to Iraq soon \u201cSaad Kambash,\u201d the head of the Iraqi Sunni Waqf (Endowment) Court, said today (Saturday) that an Egyptian religious delegation headed by Sheikh of Al-Azhar will travel to Iraq soon. Kambash said that during his official visit to Egypt, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7448],"tags":[19875,19834,19669,19876],"class_list":["post-10843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-reflection","tag-al-azhars-sheikh","tag-iraq","tag-shia-studies-world-assembly","tag-the-iraqi-sunni-waqf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}