Question: Mohammad Mahmoud Ghali was the Professor of Linguistics and Islamic Studies at the college associated with which mosque?

Context articles: Revisionist school of Islamic studies
Birgit Krawietz
Zakariyau Oseni
Shakil Auj
Tariq Ramadan
Afifi al-Akiti
Journal of Islamic Studies
Akhtarul Wasey
Al-Azhar University
Mohammad Mahmoud Ghali

The Revisionist school of Islamic studies, also known as Historical-Critical school of Islamic studies or simply Revisionism, is a movement within Islamic studies which spreads since the 1970s and initiated a paradigm shift in Islamic Studies.
Birgit Krawietz is professor of Islamic Studies.
 She earned her PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Freiburg in 1990.
 From 1992 to 1998 she worked as a post-doctoral assistant at the Orientalische Seminar at the University of Tübingen.
 After having finished her habilitation with Professor Joseph van Ess about "Hierarchie der Rechtsquellen im tradierten sunnitischen Islam" she left for the United States to work as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
 Later she continued as a Heisenberg fellow at the Islamic Studies Program at Harvard Law School and the Center for Middle East Studies of Harvard University.
Zakariyau Idrees-Oboh Oseni, (born 20 December 1950) is a prominent Arabic and Islamic Studies Scholar, an Imam and a poet from Nigeria.
 He was trained at the University of Ibadan where he obtained a Certificate in Arabic & Islamic Studies (1971), B. A. First Class Hons.
 in Arabic Language and Literature (1977), M. A. in Arabic & Islamic Studies (1980) and PhD.
 in Arabic Language & Literature (1984).
 He has over 33 years' experience in lecturing in Arabic Studies and aspects of Islamic Studies.
 He has over 100 publications in Arabic, Islamic Studies and Literature out of which are three collections of poems in English, three plays and a collection of short stories in Arabic, and a collection of Afenmai Proverbs translated and annotated.
 He is an editorial consultant to fifteen academic journals in Nigeria and beyond.
 He was the Head of the multidisciplinary Department of Religions (1997–1999) and the Department of Arabic (2008–2009), University of Ilorin.
 He served as a Visiting Professor and Head, Department of Languages, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, from October 2011 to October 2012.
 He is the immediate past Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin, Ilorin (2009–2011) and currently the Head of Department of Arabic, University of Ilorin.
 He is the Chief Imam and Waziri of Auchi.
 Moreover, he is a Fellow of Arabic Studies, Nigeria (FASN), Fellow of the Academy of Religion (FAR) and member of the Consultative Committee of 'Ulama' under the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs.
 He is happily married with children.
Hafiz Muhammad Shakil Auj TI was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and author.
 He also served as a professor and dean at Karachi University's faculty of Islamic Studies.
 During his career, Auj taught at the Karachi University for nineteen years, including heading the Islamic Studies department between 1 February 2012 until his assassination on 18 September 2014 by Al-Qaeda.
 During this time, Auj authored fifteen books on Islamic studies.
 Auj had received Tamgha-e-Imtiaz ((English: Medal of Excellence) from the President of Pakistan for his contributions to the field of Islamic education.
 Auj was noted as an Islamic reformist for his liberal interpretation of Islam.
Tariq Ramadan (Arabic: طارق رمضان‎ ‎ ; born 26 August 1962) is a Swiss academic, philosopher and writer.
 He is the professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford, and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology.
 He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies (Qatar), the Université Mundiapolis (Morocco) and several other universities around world.
 He is also a senior research fellow at Doshisha University (Japan).
 He is the director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), based in Doha.
 He is a member of the UK Foreign Office Advisory Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief.
 He was elected by "Time" magazine in 2000 as one of the seven religious innovators of the 21st century and in 2004 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and by "Foreign Policy" magazine (2005, 2006, 2008-2010, 2012-2015) as one of the top 100 most influential thinkers in the world and Global Thinkers.
Dato' Dr Afifi al-Akiti (born 1976), also known as Shaykh Afifi – is the KFAS Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
 He is also the Islamic Centre Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
 He is the first Malay to be appointed to such a position in this university.
 Elsewhere, he is a visiting professor of Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia.
 He has also received widespread media recognition across the globe.
The Journal of Islamic Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal for the field of Islamic studies.
 The journal was founded in 1990 at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and is published by Oxford University Press.
 It is indexed by the ATLA Religion Database, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, the British Humanities Index, and EBSCO Historical Abstracts.
 The editor is Farhan Ahmad Nizami of Magdalen College, Oxford.
 In the first volume, the journal was introduced in an editorial by Nizami as having the goal of:
Akhtarul Wasey is a professor of Islamic studies who taught at Jamia Millia Islamia (National Islamic University) in New Delhi.
 Currently he is working as President of Maulana Azad University, Jodhpur, India.
 As a versatile personality he assumed many formal and informal designations.
 Formerly he worked as the director of Zakir Husain Institute of Islamic Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, vice-chairman of the Urdu Academy Delhi and a member of the Executive Board of National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language; and president, vice president, Foundation of SAARC Writers And Literature, India Interfaith Coalition on HIV/AIDS etc.
 Previously he was also the President of Dargah Committee of the world-famous Chishti Sufi Shrine at Ajmer; treasurer, Maulana Azad Education Foundation; general secretary, South Asia Interreligious Council on HIV/AIDS, a body created by the UNICEF; and dean, head of the Department of Islamic Studies and Faculty of Humanities and Languages, Jamia Millia Islamia.
 Wasey has been invited to 65 academic and semi-academic tours abroad including programmes organized/sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNFP, UNHRC and Organisation of Islamic Conference.
 He is also the editor of four journals of Islamic Studies, "Islam Aur Asr-e-Jadeed" (an Urdu quarterly), "Islam and the Modern Age" (an English quarterly), "Risala Jamia" (an Urdu monthly), and "Islam Aur Adhunik Yug" (Hindi).
 Apart from his academic achievements he regularly appears on TV, debating on issues related to Islam and Muslims, and has delivered over 400 radio and 300 TV talks along with extensive and frequent writings in different news papers and magazines.
 He is considered to be a Muslim spokesperson among academicians.
 In 2013 Wasey received a Padma Shri award (a national honour by the President of India for outstanding achievers among Indian citizens) from President Pranab Mukherjee, honouring him as a distinguished academician, specializing in the multidisciplinary study of Islam and Indian Muslims.
Al-Azhar University ( ; Arabic: ‎ ‎ "Jāmiʻat al-Azhar (al-Sharīf) ", ] , "the (honorable) Azhar University") is a university in Cairo, Egypt.
 Associated with Al-Azhar Mosque in Islamic Cairo, it is Egypt's oldest degree-granting university and is renowned as "Sunni Islam’s most prestigious university".
 In addition to higher education, Al-Azhar oversees a national network of schools with approximately two million students.
 As of 1996, over 4000 teaching institutes in Egypt were affiliated with the University.
Mohammad Mahmoud Ghali (1920-2016) was the Professor of Linguistics and Islamic Studies, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
 Dr. Ghali has spent 20 years interpreting the meanings of the Quran into English.
 He is the author of an English translation of the Quran, "Towards Understanding the Ever-Glorious Quran".
 Dr. Ghali got his PhD in Phonetics from the University of Michigan.
 He also studied phonetics at the University of Exeter in the UK.
 Dr. Ghali has authored 16 books in Islamic studies, in Arabic as well as in English.
 The English books include Prophet Muhammad and the First Muslim State, Moral Freedom in Islam, Islam and Universal Peace, Synonyms in the Ever-Glorious Quran.
 Dr. Ghali is the founder of the faculty of languages and translation at Al-Azhar University.
 In addition to being a full-time professor now at the same faculty, he is also a permanent member of many Islamic organizations working in the field of interpreting the meanings of the Quran into different languages in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and other countries.
 He died on Monday, November 28, 2016 (Safar 28, 1438 AH) in Cairo, Egypt.