The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is the Muslim cleric in charge of Jerusalem's Muslim holy places, such as the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Mohammad Amin al-Husayni had the title for 27 years during the 20th century. However, the position of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem has been held by several people.

• Mohammed Tahir Husseini during the 1890s
• As'ad Shuqeiri from 1914 to 1918
• Kamil al-Husayni from 1919
• Mohammad Amin al-Husayni from 1921 to 1948
• Hussam Al-din Jarallah from 1948 to 1954
• Sulaiman Ja'abari from 1993 to 1994
• Ekrima Sa'id Sabri from October 1994 to July 2006
• Muhammad Ahmad Hussein from July 2006 to the present

"...al-Husayni did work with Eichmann for the dispatch of a special corps of Einsatz commandos to exterminate the Jews in Palestine, if Rommel managed to break through the British lines in Egypt.[41] Husseini did intervene on May 13, 1943, with the German Foreign Office to block possible transfers of Jews from Bulgaria, Hungary and Roumenia..." ~Read More

Al-Azhar University (Arabic: الأزهر الشريف‎; Al-ʾAzhar al-Šarīf, "the Noble Azhar"), is an Egyptian institution of higher learning. It is connected to Al-Azhar mosque in Old Cairo, Al-Azhar (in Arabic: the most flourished and shining) was so called either because it was surrounded by great glittering places,[citation needed] or as a hopeful disposition, or after the name of Sayeda Fatima Al-Zahra', daughter of the Prophet Mohammed. The mosque was built in two years from 969 AD, the year in which its foundation was laid. The Madrasah connected with it was founded in 988 AD. Studies began in Al-Azhar in Ramadan by October 975 AD, when Chief Justice Abul Hasan Ali ibn Al-No'man started teaching the book "Al-Ikhtisar", on the Shiite jurisprudence. It became a Sunni school towards the end of the Middle Ages, an orientation it retains to this day. It is one of the oldest operating universities in the world.