Muhammad al-Bahi

Muhammad al-Bahi (1905–1982), among the scholars and thinkers of al-Azhar in the twentieth century; born in the village of Asmaniyya in al-Buhayra on 3 August 1905; he took his doctorate from Hamburg University in 1936 on Shaykh Muhammad 'Abduh and national education, then served as the first director of al-Azhar University after the 1961 law, and as minister of awqaf and Azhar affairs in September 1962; he died on 10 September 1982. ^{1 2 3}