CAIRO, Feb 23 (Aswat Masriya) - An urgent matters court in Alexandria turned down on Monday a case to list Egypt's Salafist Front and al-Jamaa al-Islamiya as "terrorist" organisations for lack of jurisdiction, reported state news agency MENA.

A lawyer had filed the lawsuit last September. He accused the Salafist Front of calling "on its members and incited citizens to take to the streets, carrying arms against the police and armed forces."

The Jamaa Islamiya is an ultra conservative Islamist group which was implicated in several militant attacks in Egypt during the 1990s, before its jailed leaders renounced violence in 1998.

Following the January 2011 uprising which toppled former President Hosni Mubarak, the group formed a political party, the Building and Development Party, and forged strong ties with ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's administration.

Egypt listed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation in December 2013 and insists it is behind the wave of militancy which has targeted security personnel since July 2013. The Brotherhood continuously denies the accusations.