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Ahmed Subhy Mansour ( ar, أحمد صبحي منصور; born March 1, 1949) is an
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scholar dealing with
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. He founded a small Egyptian ''
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'' group that is neither
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nor
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, was
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d from Egypt, and lives in the United States as a political refugee. Mansour was an advocate for
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and
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for many years, during which time he was isolated by
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s and persecuted by the government. He was arrested and served time in prison for his liberal political, religious, and social views. In May 1985, Mansour was discharged from his teaching and research position due to his liberal views, which were not acceptable to the religious authorities who controlled much of university policies and programs. Mansour sought and was granted political asylum in the United States in 2002. He has served as a visiting fellow at the
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, and at the Human Rights Program at
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. Sheikh Mansour was fired from
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after expressing his
Quranist Quranism ( ar, القرآنية, translit=al-Qurʾāniyya'';'' also known as Quran-only Islam) Brown, ''Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought'', 1996: p.38-42 is a movement within Islam. It holds the belief that traditional religious cl ...
views. One of Mansour's fellow Islamic scholars at Al Azhar University Sheik Jamal Tahir took up the same Quran alone stance.


Biography

Mansoor received his junior
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education in 1964, and ranked second in the Republic on the national exam. He graduated from
Al-Azhar Al-Azhar Mosque ( ar, الجامع الأزهر, al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit=The Resplendent Congregational Mosque, arz, جامع الأزهر, Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic ...
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, in Sharkeya, Egypt, in 1969, and ranked fourth in country on the national university
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. He then studied
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at the
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(a prestigious
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religious university) in
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, where he obtained a
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degree with Highest Honors in 1973, an
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degree with Honors in 1975, and a
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degree with Highest Honors in 1980. He founded a small Egyptian sect the ''Quranists'', who believe: the Quran is the sole source of Islam and its laws. From 1973 till 1980 he was an assistant teacher and lecturer, and between 1980 and 1987 he was an assistant professor, both of Muslim history at the College of Arabic Language of the Al Azhar University. In May 1985, Mansour was discharged from his teaching and research position in Egypt due to his liberal views, which were not acceptable to the religious authorities who controlled much of university policies and programs. Because of his unconventional scholarship, Al-Azhar University accused him of being an enemy of Islam. He was tried in its
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court, and expelled March 17, 1987. In 1987, beginning with his arrest on November 17, and in 1988 he was imprisoned by the Egyptian government for his views, including his advocacy of religious harmony and tolerance between Egyptian Muslims, Christian
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s, and Jews. Between 1991 and 1992, he worked with
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to establish a new political party in Egypt, Mostakbal ("The Future Party"), dedicated to a secular democratic state, and to defend the Christian Egyptians. Foda was assassinated in June 1992. From 1994 to 1996, he was a member of the board of trustees of the
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, which worked to protect Egyptians from human rights offenses. In 1996, Mansour established a weekly conference at the
Ibn Khaldoun Ibn Khaldun (; ar, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, ; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732-808 AH) was an Arab The Historical Muhammad', Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), p. 21; "It is, of ...
Center – headed by
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– in order to discuss Islamist dogma, religion-based terror, and other issues. It functioned until June 2000, when the center was closed down by the Egyptian government and Ibrahim was arrested. Mansour sought and was granted
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in the United States in 2002. From 28 September 2009 to 27 September 2010, Mansour served as a Fellow at The US Commission on International Religious Freedom. From 7 September 2010 to May 2011, Mansour served as fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center. On 13 April 2011, Mansour served as a witness at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Terrorism, HUMINT, Analysis, and Counterintelligence, where he presented his expert opinion on the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafi groups in Egypt and the Muslim World. (Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20120917004719/http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/SFR20110413Mansour.pdf)


Quraniyoon


In the US

He and his sons operate the Quranic Center in
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, which includes an Internet site in Arabic and English. On its website at www.ahl-alquran.com, the organization is republishing dozens of Mansour's books and hundreds of articles he has written over the years. Since arriving in the United States in 2002, Mansour has held a number of academic posts. In 2002, he was a
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Democracy Fellow at the
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in Washington, where he wrote on the roots of democracy in Islam. The next year, he received a visiting fellowship at
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's Human Rights Program. In October 2004, he said that the leaders of the Muslim organization behind a new $22 million mosque in Roxbury tolerated "hateful views", and harbored extremists. In 2004
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lauded him for speaking out against Islamists. In 2007, ''
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'' reported that his teachings have earned him dozens of death ''"fatwās"'' from fellow Muslim clerics, the punishment of
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in sunni sectarian Islam. In 2008, he said of the
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(CAIR), "The culture of CAIR is the same as
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, but they have two faces. Who are the moderates? You probably never heard of them, and that, they say, is part of the problem. The message of peace does not make the news." ;International Quranic Center Mansour founded and is a board member of the International Quranic Center (IQC) to further his vision of moderate Islam. They do not identify themselves as Sunnis' or Shiites' sects but simply call themselves Muslims because they believe that the Qu'ran represents the single authentic scripture of Islam. The basic differences with the rest of the Orthodox Muslims is that they reject the ''
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'' and '' Sunna'', purported sayings and traditions of the prophet
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. Mansour claims about 10,000 followers in Egypt. ;Americans for Peace and Tolerance He is a co-founder and board member of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, along with political activist Charles Jacobs and
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political science professor Dennis Hale (an
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layman). It states its purpose to "promote peaceful coexistence in an ethnically diverse America by educating the American public about the need for a moderate political leadership that supports tolerance and core American values in communities across the nation." The group is a primary critic of the $15.6 million mosque in Roxbury Crossings, which the group asserts is led by extremist leaders and contributors. Mansour said: "I visited this mosque one time with my wife. I found their Arabic materials full of hatred against America. I recognized they were Wahhabis." The Islamic Society of Boston sued him over his attacks on anti-American and anti-Semitic statements he said he read and heard inside the society's mosque. He is also a founder and board member (since October 2004) of Citizens for Peace and Tolerance. ;Free Muslims Coalition Mansour is also a board member (since September 2004) of the Free Muslims Coalition, a nonprofit organization of American Muslims and Arabs who feel that
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and terrorism have not been fully rejected by the Muslim community. The Coalition seeks to eliminate broad base support for
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and terrorism, to strengthen secular democratic institutions in the Muslim world by supporting Islamic reformation efforts, and to promote a modern secular interpretation of Islam which is peace-loving, democracy-loving, and compatible with other faiths and beliefs. ;Center for Islamic Pluralism Mansour is the founder and the interim president of
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.


Arrests in Egypt

In May and June 2007, Egyptian authorities arrested five leaders of the movement, including Mansour's brother, on charges of "insulting Islam", and began investigations of 15 others. Following the arrests, Mansour's homes in Cairo and Sharqia were searched by the State Security. Paul Marshall analyzed the arrests in the ''
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'' as follows:
These arrests are part of the Egyptian government's double game in which it imprisons members of the
Muslim Brotherhood The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan ...
when the latter appear to become too powerful, while simultaneously trying to appear Islamic itself and blunt the Brotherhood's appeal by cracking down on religious reformers, who are very often also democracy activists."


Works

Mansour has authored 24 books and 500 articles (in various newspapers and magazines, including '' Al Akhbar'', ''
Al-Ahram ''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majori ...
'', '' Al Khaleej'', and '' Al Watan'') in Arabic, dealing with many aspects of Islamic history, culture, and religion. They include a history of
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sm in
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; a critique of the concepts of ''
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'', bigotry, and dictatorship in Muslim thought;
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in the Muslim world; the reform of Egyptian education; and various pieces of prose fiction and screen plays. Mansour published 1873 articles in Arabic in Modern discussion until December 27, 201

He also published more articles in Arabic and in English in Ahl Al Quran sit

including tens of Arabic book

and hundreds of Fatwa

and 64 Arabic episodes of ( Exposing Salafism), which was published on Ahl al Quran site and on YouTub

He also recently published other Arabic Books in Arabic on Faceboo


Books

;Books in Arabic #''Al Sayed Al Badway: Fact versus Superstition''. Cairo, 1982. #''Using Religious Texts to Inform Muslim History''. Cairo, 1984. #''The Personality of Egypt after the Muslim Invasion''. Cairo, 1984. #''The History of the Historic Sources of Arabic and Muslim Fields''. Cairo, 1984. #''The Fundamental Rules of Historical Research''. Cairo, 1984. #''The Invasions of the Moguls and the Crusaders in Muslim History''. Cairo, 1985. #''A History of the Cultural Development of Muslims''. Cairo, 1985. #''The Muslim World between the Early Stage and the Abbasy
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''. Cairo, 1985. #''The Prophets in the Holy Quran''. Cairo, 1985. #''The Sinner Muslim: Common Mythology Regarding the Sinner Muslim''. Cairo, 1987. #''Egypt in the Holy Quran''. '' Al Akhbar'' newspaper, Cairo, 1990. #''The Quran: the Only Source of Islam and Islamic Jurisprudence'' (published under the title ''The Quran: Why?'' using the pseudonym Abdullah Al Khalifah) Cairo, 1990. #''Death in the Quran''. Dar Al Shark Al Awsat, Cairo, 1990. #''The Penalty of Apostasy''. Tiba Publishing, Cairo, 1992; Al Mahrousah, 1994; Al Mothakkafoun Al Arab (The Arab Intellectuals Publishing Company), 2000; English translation, The International Publishing and Distributing Company, Toronto, Canada, 1998. #''Freedom of Speech: Islam and Muslims''. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, Cairo, 1994. #''The Al Hisbah between the Quran and Muslims''. Al Mahrousah, Cairo, 1995; ''Al Kahera'' magazine, Cairo, 1996. #''The Torture of the Grave''. Tibia, Cairo, 1996; Al Mothakkafoun Al Arab, Cairo, 2000. #'' Naskh in the Quran Means Writing Not Abrogating''. ''Al Tanweer'' magazine, Cairo?? 1997; Al Mahrousah, Cairo, 1998; Al Mothakkafoun Al Arab, Cairo, 2000. #''The Introduction (mokademat) of
Ibn Khaldoun Ibn Khaldun (; ar, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, ; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732-808 AH) was an Arab The Historical Muhammad', Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), p. 21; "It is, of ...
: A Fundamental Historical and Analytical Study''. The Ibn Khaldoun Center, Cairo, 1999. #''Suggestions to Revise Muslim Religion Courses in Egyptian Education to Make Egyptians More Tolerant''. Ibn Khaldoun Center, Cairo, 1999. #''Religious Thought in Egypt in the
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e Era: Islam versus Muslim
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''. Ministry of Culture, Cairo, 2000. #
Al-Aqaid Al-Diniyah Fi Misr Al-Mamlukiyah Bayna Al-Islam Wa-Al-Tasawwuf
', by Ahmad Subhi Mansur, , al-Hayah al-Misriyah al-Ammah lil-Kitab #
Al-Tasawwuf Wa-Al-hayah Al-Diniyah Fi Misr Al-Mamlukiyah
', by Ahmad Subhi Mansur, , Markaz al-Mahrusah lil-Buhuth wa-al-Tadrib wa-Nashr #
Misr Fi Al-Quran Al-Karim
', by Ahmad Subhi Mansur, , Muassasat Akhbar al-Yawm


Select articles



by Ahmed Sobhi Mansour, ''
Al-Ahram ''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majori ...
'', October 15–21, 1998
"The Roots of Democracy in Islam"
,
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, December 16, 2002
"The False Alarm of Evangelism"
April 28, 2005
"The Suicide Bomber"
FrontPage Magazine, August 3, 2—5
"They ask you about the veil"
November 21, 2006

''
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'', February 3, 2009


Select testimony


Testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
, Washington, D.C., October 25, 2005


See also

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Quranism Quranism ( ar, القرآنية, translit=al-Qurʾāniyya'';'' also known as Quran-only Islam) Brown, ''Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought'', 1996: p.38-42 is a movement within Islam. It holds the belief that traditional religious cl ...


References


Sources


Free-Minds bio''Washington Times'' Article''Conflict & cooperation: Christian-Muslim relations in contemporary Egypt''
Peter E. Makari,
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, 2007,


External links


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