• Al-Azhar Grand Imam will make a historic visit to Iraq next January

In a telephone conversation between HE Prof. Ahmad At-Tayyeb, Grand Imam ‎of Al-Azhar Ash-Sharif, and HE Mohammed Shayya’ Al-Sudani, the Iraqi Prime ‎Minister, it is agreed that the Grand Imam’s upcoming visit to Iraq will be in next ‎January.‎

HE At-Tayyeb affirmed to Mr. Al-Sudani his pleasure to visit the brotherly ‎Iraq, the country deeply rooted in history, a seat of Arabism and a cradle of ‎civilization and prophets. He also expressed his appreciation and love for the ‎brotherly Iraqi people.‎

For his part, Mr. Al-Sudani expressed his pleasure with this forthcoming and ‎important visit, for which Iraqis of all affiliations and denominations are ‎waiting. The significance of the visit, he added, springs from the fact that HE At-‎Tayyeb enjoys great Arab, Muslim and international appreciation, and hence his ‎visit to Iraq will be of great interest to all Iraqis. Mr. Al-Sudani also imputed the ‎significance of the visit to the considerable status that Al-Azhar, the largest ‎Muslim institution in the world, fills in the hearts of Muslims.‎

HE At-Tayyeb pays great attention to this visit due to its importance in sustaining ‎the causes of the Muslim nation, foremost of which is its unity, solidarity and ‎cohesion. The visit, which was prepared for a long time ago, but postponed due to the ‎Corona-related restrictions, has been rescheduled upon the renewed official and ‎popular Iraqi invitation to the Grand Imam to visit Iraq.‎