Ali Gomaa

Shaikh Ali Gomaa is the Grand Mufti of Egypt. He is considered to be one of the most respected and qualified traditional Islamic scholars alive. He has mastery in numerous Islamic Sciences but particularly specializes in the science of the foundations of Islamic Law, viz Usul al-fiqh. He follows the [[[Shafi`i]] school of Islamic juruspudence and is follower of Tasawwuf

Shaikh Ali Gomaa is also the khateeb (the Orator) of the Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo and has authored around two dozen books on various highly specialized and complex subjects of Islam.

He is the Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Hadith, a sub-section of the greater Sunna Project of the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, which aims at documenting and publishing all works related to Prophetic narrations or Hadith.

Teachers

Some of his prominent teachers include

1. Shaykh Abdallah al-Saddiq al-Ghumari whom he learnt Usul al-fiqh from
2. Muhammad Abul-Nur Zuhair a scholar of Shafi'i Fiqh
3. Gad Al-Rabb Ramadan
4. Sheikh El- Husseini Youssef El-Sheikh.

Interview

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/561/profile.htm