The Five-Party Committee that was formed by an Emergency Assembly to manage the Supreme Council of Sufi Orders will assume its duties by acknowledging 13 Sufi orders. Committee Chairman Sheikh Mohamed el-Shahawi told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the committee made the internal organization of the council its first priority before the next elections. He said there are 13 Sufi orders that pose a problem within the council because their procedures have not been completed, which vitiates their legitimacy, although they have been active for 33 years since the enactment of the Supreme Council Law of Sufi Orders that was approved by President Sadat in 1976. Committee Counsel Ahmed Abdo Nasser said the committee is talking to the representatives of those orders before charging them with capacity impersonation. It urges them to submit their credentials with the Ministries of Interior, Local Development, Religious Endowments, Culture and to Al-Azhar.
