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HIS HOLINESS SHAIKH MUSTAFA AL-MARAGHiY HAIKH Muhammad Mustafa al-Maraghly, rector of al• Azhar University, Cairo, died at Alexandria on August 21 last.
In 1907 he became inspector in the Ministry of Waqfs and · in 1908 was nominated as Chief Shar'iy Judge in the Sudan, which post he held until 1918.
In 1919 Shaikh Mustafa was made Chief Inspector of the Shar'Iy Courts in Egypt, and soon after President of the Cairo Shar'iy Court of First Instance.
In May 1928, he was appointed rector of al-Azhar University, the biggest and, after the Qarawiyin of Tunis, the oldest in Islamic world, and thereby became the chief religious dignitary in the country.
Probably it was also at his instance that an Egyptian · student was sent to Paris in 1934 to prepare a thesis on the history of al-Azhar which was soon to celebrate its comple• tion of thousand years of existence, a period unequalled by any non-Muslim University in the world now existing.