Muhammad al-Jizawi

Under his tenure he witnessed Egypt's 1919 revolution, and the abolition of the Caliphate; The 1924 King Fuad I Edition of the Qur’an was published;[2] and the Supreme Council of al-Azhar sentenced Ali Abdel Raziq to exclusion from the Ulama.

[4] The promotion of the Turkish language Quran necessitated consideration of the lawfulness of any translation from Classical Arabic.

Al-Jizawi argued against translation citing traditional law prohibiting travelling with the holy book to the lands of unbelievers lest the Quran should fall into their hands.

[5] In March 1924 he formed the Greater Committee for Religious Knowledge in direct response to the collapse of the Caliphate and the issue of preaching in such an environment.

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab had founded a military movement, based on Hanbali theology, opposing the Ottoman Sultanate as illegitimate.