Egypt's top Muslim cleric dies of heart attack (WFMJ Youngstown)

10 March 2010, 1:22 am

CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's state-owned news agency says the country's top Muslim cleric has died of a heart attack during a visit to Saudi Arabia. Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi was 81 years old. He was the grand sheik of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's pre-eminent theological institute.... Read More »

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