High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dato` Dr Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti (Born 1976), BA (Queen`s), MA (Oxon), MSt (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), MSIEPM – also known as Shaykh Afifi – is KFAS Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and 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 ever Malay to be appointed to such a position in this world famous University. Elsewhere, he is a Visiting Professor of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. He has received widespread media recognition across the globe.