CAIRO (Reuters) - Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of Egypt's most prestigious seat of Islamic learning al-Azhar, died of a heart attack on Wednesday on a visit to Saudi Arabia, religious officials at al-Azhar said. He was 81. Sunni Islam's top authority and Grand Chief of Cairo's Al-Azhar mosque, Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, pauses during a news conference in Cairo September 16, 2006. (REUTERS/Nasser Nuri/Files) Mohamed Wasel, Tantawi's deputy, will temporarily take charge of the Sunni...
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