There are, nevertheless, scholars who have issued fatwas decreeing niqab as being against Islam, including the Grand Mufti of Egypt and Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Haji Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy who wrote a 7000-page Exegesis (Tafsir) of Al-Qur'an over a period of 10 years for the Sunni Islamic world against the niqab. A renowned scholar and head of the Islamic world's preeminent religious institute, Tantawy has stated that "the niqab is a cultural tradition and has nothing to do with Islam."[15] His comments followed an incident in which he forced a school girl to remove her niqab during a visit to an Al-Azhar school, when Tantawy reportedly said that he would call for an official ban for the face veil in Islamic schools.