Ibrahim Mukhtar
Mufti of Eritrea · Eritrea · On the map · Writers · Lived 1909 to 1969 · aged 60
Ibrahim Mukhtar was the first Grand Mufti of Eritrea as appointed by the Italian colonial administration. Ibrahim's first language was Saho. He graduated from al-Azhar University in 1937. The Grand Mufti resisted Ethiopian oppression of Eritrea.
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He however, maintained a pragmatic and delicate balance between outright defiance and his official role as a Muslim community leader under Ethiopian rule. In 1960 he published an article describing the Ethiopian regime in Eritrea as "colonial."
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