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Sheikh Ibrahim Mukhtar Ahmed Omar was born in Eritrea in 1909 in a village close to the coast of the Red Sea. He was the second child in a family of seven siblings. His mother passed away when he was only ten years old. His father was a respected scholar who received his Islamic education locally as well as in Yemen and Hejaz (Saudi Arabia).
After Sheikh Ibrahim's death, the office of the Grand Mufti of Eritrea was discontinued until August 1992, following the liberation of Eritrea. Ibrahim Mukhtar was a prolific author, with several dozen unpublished texts about a wide array of religious, historical, linguistic and literary subjects. References. Jonathan Miran (2012).
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Sheikh Ibrahim Mukhtar received his preliminary education from his learned father. Shortly after the death of his father, Sheikh Ibrahim Mukhtar, at the age of 15, left his village to go to Khartoum, in 1925 and studied in Omdurman before continuing on Cairo in 1926 to pururse an advance religious educatiothe capital of Sudan.
Ibrahim Mukhtar (1909 - 1969) 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.
His father was a respected scholar who received his Islamic education locally as well as in Yemen and Hejaz (Saudi Arabia). Sheikh Ibrahim Mukhtar received his preliminary education from his learned father. Shortly after the death of his father, Sheikh Ibrahim Mukhtar, at the age of 15, left his village to go to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
Sh.Ismael Ibrahim Mukhtar an Islamic scholar, volunteer Imam, educator and has served as a community leader for the Manitoba Muslim community for over three decades. He is also a certified general accountant. Sh.Ismael studied Islamic knowledge directly under his father, the First Mufti of Eritrea, Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Mukhtar Ahmed Omer.
His main teacher was Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman, and he continued to attend him until he passed away. Following the death of Hammad, after having spent 18 years with him, Abu Hanifah replaced his teacher. He was 40 at the time. Abu Hanifah then started to explain his methodology of arriving at rulings for different questions, and his approach to Fiqh.
