Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, pictured in 2008, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar -- Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning -- died on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia of a heart attack, the official MENA news agency reported.
AFP - Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar -- Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning -- died on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia of a heart attack, the official MENA news agency reported.
Tantawi, 81, was in Riyadh to attend the King Faisal awards ceremony, it said.
He died in the Saudi Arabian capital "after a sudden heart attack," MENA said.
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