Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah

Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah (Arabic: محمد أحمد خلف الله‎, 1916-1991) was an Egyptian Islamic modernist thinker and writer.[1][2]

In 1947, Cairo University refused his doctoral dissertation presented to the Department of Arabic entitled The Narrative Art in the Holy Qur'an, as he suggested that holy texts are allegoric and that they should not be seen as something fixed, but as a moral direction.[3] He was fired from his teaching position and transferred to the Ministry of Culture.[3]

Afterwards, he started a thesis on a non-religious subject and received his doctorate in 1952. He ended his career at the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.[3][1]

Notes and references
  1. عمارة, محمد (1 January 2011). أشهر مناظرات القرن العشرين. الجزء الأول، مصر بين الدولة المدنية والدينية (in Arabic). Al Manhal. ISBN 9796500078472.
  2. Khalafallah, Muhammad Ahmad, Oxford Islamic Studies On-line, cinting The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (page visited on 30 January 2015).
  3. Zeid, Nasr Hamid Abou; Zayd, Nasr Hamid Abu; Zayd, Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū; Zaid, Nasr Abu; Nelson, Esther R. (2004). Voice of an Exile: Reflections on Islam. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-98250-8.

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