Mahmoud Al-Shahat Muhammad Anwar, better known as Sheikh Mahmoud Al-Shahat. He was born in 1984 in the village of Kafr Al-Wazir in Mit Ghamr in Dakahlia Governorate. He memorized the Qur’an from his father, Sheikh Al-Shahat Anwar, at the age of twelve, and he won first place in the international competition in the Arab Republic of Egypt.