Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli approved the election of six new members of the Islamic Research Academy (IRA), Al Azhar said in a statement on Friday.

The list groups IRA Secretary General Nazeer Ayyad, former Dean of the College of Islamic and Arabic Studies Gad el-Rub Abdel Magid, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sharia Mahmoud Hamid Othman, head of the Al Azhar institutes sector Salama Gomaa Daoud, former dean of the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion Abdel Fattah Abdel Ghani el Awari, and former Al Azhar undersecretary Abbas Shoman.

Source: State Information Service Egypt