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Liputan6.com, Cairo: great Ulama of Egypt, Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, has died during a visit to Saudi Arabia. 81-year-old cleric was allegedly died of a heart attack. Thus released Associated Press, Wednesday (10 / 3).

When he confirmed that Saudi officials did not want to be identified said, Sheikh Tantawi left two sons and a daughter. He will be interred in the cemetery Baqee in the holy city of Medina, close to the Masjid Nabawi.

Tantawi is the sheikh of the Sunni university of Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Large Sheikh Al-Azhar is also known for frequent criticism of the group issued a conservative and secular Muslims. In addition, scholars of the Sunni Islamic law treasures donated through his fatwa. Sheikh Tantawi also called moderate scholars and advocates women's rights.

But, some of the opposite, also criticized the sheikh of Al-Azhar as a civil servant appointed to promote the agenda of the Egyptian government. Sheikh Tantawi elected President Hosni Mubarak, in March 1996. He is a respected figure around 1.4 billion Muslims throughout the world. (ADD / ANS)