Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy محمد سيد طنطاوي | |
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| Grand Imam of Al-Azhar | |
| In office 27 March 1996 – 10 March 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Gad el-Haq Ali Gad el-Haq |
| Succeeded by | Mohamed Ahmed el-Tayeb |
| Grand Mufti of Egypt | |
| In office 28 October 1986 – 27 March 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Abd al-Latif Abd al-Ghani Hamzah |
| Succeeded by | Nasr Farid Wasil |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 October 1928 Sohag, Egypt |
| Died | 10 March 2010 (aged 81) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Alma mater | Al-Azhar University |
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (Arabic: محمد سيد طنطاوي; 28 October 1928 – 10 March 2010), also referred to as Tantawi, was an influential Islamic scholar in Egypt. From 1986 to 1996, he was the Grand Mufti of Egypt. In 1996, president Hosni Mubarak appointed him as the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, a position he retained until his death in 2010.