{"id":79507,"date":"2021-10-21T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=79507"},"modified":"2021-11-03T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T07:36:18","slug":"sheikh-al-azhar-to-visit-najaf-and-meet-with-grand-ayatollah-sistani-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/79507-sheikh-al-azhar-to-visit-najaf-and-meet-with-grand-ayatollah-sistani-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh al-Azhar to visit Najaf and meet with Grand Ayatollah Sistani next month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f1_\u06f1\u06f1-\u06f2\u06f8-\u06f1\u06f3-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f1_\u06f1\u06f1-\u06f2\u06f8-\u06f1\u06f3-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f1_\u06f1\u06f1-\u06f2\u06f8-\u06f1\u06f3-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f1_\u06f1\u06f1-\u06f2\u06f8-\u06f1\u06f3-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f1_\u06f1\u06f1-\u06f2\u06f8-\u06f1\u06f3-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f1_\u06f1\u06f1-\u06f2\u06f8-\u06f1\u06f3-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The British newspaper, Middle East Monitor, said yesterday that the Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar in Egypt, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, plans to visit the religious authority, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani in the holy city of Najaf next month.<br>The newspaper said in a report, &#8220;The visit to the holy city of Najaf will be historic, as it is the first time that the two meet face to face.&#8221;<br>It added, &#8220;It will include visiting the holy shrines in the holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, in addition to meetings with other prominent Shia scholars.&#8221;<br>The newspaper added, &#8220;The Al-Azhar is the highest scientific institution for the Sunnis, while Najaf is the oldest and most important Shia school.&#8221;<br>According to the informed sources, Al-Tayeb said he will also visit Baghdad, Mosul and Erbil as part of the trip.<br>Iraqi governments have sent previous invitations to Al-Tayeb to visit the country since 2003, and a report in 2010 stated that he would meet with Sistani to discuss ways of closer relations between Sunni and Shia sects, but the visit did not take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British newspaper, Middle East Monitor, said yesterday that the Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar in Egypt, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, plans to visit the religious authority, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani in the holy city of Najaf next month.The newspaper said in a report, &#8220;The visit to the holy city of Najaf will be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[1391,49,2660],"class_list":["post-79507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-marjaeyat","tag-ayatollah-sistani","tag-najaf","tag-sheikh-al-azhar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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