His Eminence Professor Osama Al-Azhari was born in Alexandria in 1976 and grew up in Sohag. He obtained his BA from the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion and Islamic Propagation at Al-Azhar University in 1999, his MA in Hadith Sciences in 2005, and his PhD in Islamic Philosophy in 2011. He taught at the same faculty in Zagazig and specialized in Hadith, Logic, and Aqeedah. Professor Al-Azhari also served as an advisor to the President of the Republic for Religious Affairs and a member of the National Council for Combating Terrorism and Extremism. He was appointed Minister of Endowments in 2024.