One figure who responded to the letter was Ahmad Shakir, an Al-Azhar cleric and a judge in Cairo’s family courts, the last bastion of Shariah law in Egypt’s judiciary. Shakir was an important link between the Egyptian ulama and the Wahhabi scholars of Saudi Arabia, where the revivalist thought of Ibn Taymiyya was undergoing a renaissance. Shakir, in fact, was a founding figure of the Salafi movement in Egypt.
