Archive for July, 2010

Death of a True Scholar and a Muslim Mensch

By • Jul 14th, 2010 • Category: Works Cites Soroush

by: Reuven Firestone A bright light of critical scholarship of Islam was just extinguished in Cairo with the death at 66 of professor Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on July 5. I saw him only last spring at the international conference “The Qur’an in Its Historical Context” held at the University of Notre Dame, where he […]