Sheikh Thaqib Mahmood is a traditionally-trained Muslim scholar and instructor in Arabic. He has studied the traditional Islamic disciplines in Yemen, Syria, the UK, Mauritania, and Turkey. He currently teaches Arabic at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. He holds a PGDIP in Arabic teaching from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and is completing a Master’s degree in linguistics at the same institution .Sheikh Thaqib is a senior visiting scholar at the London College of Islamic Studies and regularly teaches as a resident scholar at the Wilaya Trust in Oxford.