Thursday evening, February 19, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ash-Sharif, Prof. Ahmad At-Tayyeb, left Cairo for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to participate in the international Islamic Conference on Combating Terrorism, organized by the Muslim World League (MWL), which is scheduled to be held next Sunday.

  The three-day conference will discuss six themes related to the dilemma of terrorism, beginning with its concept and its religious, social and economic causes, through its educational, cultural and media causes, to terrorism, regional and global interests, and its effects on Islamic societies.

 Within the conference, several workshops will be held on the application of Sharia and good Islamic governance, the state in the contemporary Islamic vision, and the concept of Jihad in Islamic Sharia.