Muhammad Mahmud Ghali (1920–29 November 2016) was the Professor of Linguistics and Islamic Studies,

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. Ghali studied phonetics at the

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in the UK before obtaining his PhD in

Phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

from the

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. He spent 20 years interpreting the meanings of the

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into English. He was author of an English translation of the Quran, ''Towards Understanding the Ever-Glorious Quran''. Ghali 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. Ghali was the founder of the faculty of languages and translation at Al-Azhar University. In addition to being a full-time professor at the same faculty, he was 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.

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1920 births 2016 deaths Academic staff of Al-Azhar University University of Michigan alumni Egyptian translators Egyptian expatriates in the United States Egyptian expatriates in the United Kingdom Translators of the Quran into English {{Egypt-academic-bio-stub