Question: Ahmed Brahim had supposed contacts with the professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at what institution?

Context articles: Ebrahim Moosa
Zakariyau Oseni
Tariq Ramadan
Ahmed Brahim (al-Qaeda)
Birgit Krawietz
Al Mesbar Studies and Research Centre
Shakil Auj
Akhtarul Wasey
Revisionist school of Islamic studies
Omid Safi

Ebrahim Moosa is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of History and the Kroc Institute for International Studies.
 He was previously Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies at Duke University.
 He is considered a leading scholar of contemporary Muslim thought.
 Moosa has been named as one of the top 500 Influential Muslims in the World.
 According to the contemporary scholar Adis Duderija, Moosa is "one of the most prominent intellectual theoreticians behind progressive Muslim thought."
 According to UCLA Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, Moosa is "a formidable Muslim intellectual and scholar."
 In 2007, he was invited to deliver his lecture, "Ethical Challenges in Contemporary Islamic Thought," in Morocco, which was attended by King Muhammad VI.
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.
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.
Ahmed Brahim (born 1945) is a convicted al-Qaeda member from Algeria.
 Spanish authorities arrested him in 2002 on charges that he was a chief financier for al-Qaeda in Spain.
 He is also alleged to have been a planner in the bombing of two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
 Brahim is married to a Finnish national identified as Pirjo.
 Spanish counter-terrorism judge Baltasar Garzón has also alleged that Ahmed Brahim had "routine contacts" with Swiss-born Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in 1999.
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.
Al Mesbar Studies & Research Center is a Dubai based cultural phenomena think tank concentrating on the study of Islamic Movements.
 The Center focuses on "contemporary Islamic Movements, their thoughts and practices, symbolisms and ideologies and especially those that have [an] historic impact which is still in effect today".
 It was founded in 2007 by Turki Bin Abdullah Aldakhil.
 Al-Mesbar Centre tries to materialize this transformation process through its various cultural, research and specialized scientific activities.
 Al-Mesbar Centre pays special attention to studying contemporary Islamic movements in order to unveil the nature of these constructive movements, observe their relations with other movements and their interaction with their milieu, presenting an anticipatory view to its future on all levels, and a view of the future of the nation away from calls of isolation and extremism.
 The core of the business is driven from its main monthly activity which is called Al-Mesbar Monthly Book; a monthly publication specialized in studying contemporary Islamic movements.
 This publication is distributed by subscription to leaders and decision makers, in the Arab world region, on a monthly basis, and available to public readers after some period of time.
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.
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.
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.
Omid Safi is an American Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, where he is the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center, and a columnist for On Being.
 Dr. Safi specializes in Islamic mysticism (Sufism), contemporary Islamic thought and medieval Islamic history.
 He has served on the board of the Pluralism project at Harvard University and is the co-chair of the steering committee for the Study of Islam and the Islamic Mysticism Group at the American Academy of Religion.
 Before joining Duke University, Dr. Safi was a professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.