  islam is the dominant religion in egypt with around 80 million muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010.the future of the global muslim population - egypt pew forum.mapping the global muslim population pew forum. 2009. pp.5. almost the entirety of egypt's muslims are sunnis, with a small minority of shia and ahmadi muslims. the latter, however, are not recognized by egypt. islam has been recognized as the state religion since 1980.an independent voice for egyptâs al-azhar? ahmed morsy. july 13, 2011. prior to napoleon's invasion in 1798, almost all of egypt's educational, legal, public health, and social welfare issues were in the hands of religious functionaries. ottoman rule reinforced the public and political roles of the ulama (religious scholars), as mamluk rule had done before the ottomans, because islam was the state religion and because political divisions in the country were based on religious divisions. see drop-down essay on "islamic conquest and the ottoman empire" during the 19th and 20th centuries, successive governments made extensive efforts to limit the role of the ulama in public life and to bring religious institutions under closer state control. after the egyptian revolution of 1952, the government assumed responsibility for appointing officials to mosques and religious schools. the government mandated reform of al-azhar university beginning in 1961. these reforms permitted department heads to be drawn from outside the ranks of the traditionally trained orthodox ulama.  ==history==  in the late 10th cent
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