Professor Mohamed El-Amin Ahmed El-Tom | |
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محمد الأمين أحمد التوم | |
| Ministry of Education | |
| In office 5 September 2019 – 26 August 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Abdalla Hamdok |
| Succeeded by | Mahmoud Sir Al-Khatam |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 1941 (age 83) |
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| Thesis | Numerical Approximation of Functions of One or More Variables (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Christopher Handscomb |
Mohamed El-Amin Ahmed El-Tom[1] (Arabic: محمد الأمين أحمد التوم; born October 1941), also known as Muhammad Al-Amin Al-Tom, is a Sudanese mathematician and the first Minister of Education after the Sudanese Revolution, serving between 2019 and 2022. During his tenure, he worked on various initiatives to improve education in Sudan, including the development of a comprehensive plan for the sector. However, El-Tom and his assistant, Omer al-Qarray, faced controversy over the inclusion of Michelangelo's famous painting, The Creation of Adam, in Sudanese school textbooks. The decision was met with strong opposition from some conservative Muslim groups, who argued that the image of God reaching out to Adam in the painting was inconsistent with Islamic beliefs and should not be included in textbooks.