Sheikh Gad Al-Haq Ali Gad Al-Haq

Gad Al-Haq was educated in Tanta and Cairo and received a degree in Sharia in 1944 and a judiciary license in 1946 from Al-Azhar.

He served for more than three decades in the Islamic judiciary in Egypt and became the country’s Mufti in 1978. In 1980, he became Egypt’s Minister of Endowment, and later in the same year, he was appointed to the prestigious position of Grand Imam (Rector) of Al-Azhar. He was also a Chairman of the International Council for Islamic Daawa and Relief and a member of the boards of several national and international academic and religious institutions. He authored several important books on fiqh, religious edicts, and other related topics.

Shaikh Gad Al-Haq received many other prestigious awards and medals, including the Egyptian Order of the Nile in 1983 and the Moroccan Order (First Class) of Academic Excellence in 1984.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.