Ahmad Mahmoud Karima (),

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and

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, is best known for his religious moderation and condemnations of radicalism, and for his intense criticism of the

Salafi The Salafi movement or Salafism () is a fundamentalist revival movement within Sunni Islam, originating in the late 19th century and influential in the Islamic world to this day. The name "''Salafiyya''" is a self-designation, claiming a retu ...

Wahhabi movement Wahhabism is an exonym for a Salafi revivalist movement within Sunni Islam named after the 18th-century Hanbali scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. It was initially established in the central Arabian region of Najd and later spread to other p ...

, and the

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group. He declared after the

2016 international conference on Sunni Islam in Grozny The 2016 conference on Sunni Islam in Grozny or shortly Chechnya Conference was convened to define the term " Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah", i.e. who are "the people of Sunnah and majority Muslim community", and oppose Takfiri groups. The conf ...

that "If the world is looking forward to uprooting

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

, it has to stand up against

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because they are the root of all sedition and conflict."

Books

Among his well-known writings are: * Al-Salafiyya bayna al-Aseel wa al-Dakheel (). * Gama'at al-Ikhwan ().

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Karima, Ahmad 1951 births Living people People from Giza Governorate Asharis Muslim reformers 20th-century Muslim theologians 21st-century Muslim theologians Critics of Wahhabism Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Sunni imams Egyptian imams Egyptian Sunni Muslims Egyptian Maliki scholars 20th-century Egyptian educators 21st-century Egyptian educators Al-Azhar University alumni Academic staff of Al-Azhar University

Books

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