Ahmed Subhy Mansour
Ahmed Subhy Mansour (; born March 1, 1949) is an Egyptian American activist and
Quranist scholar dealing with
Islamic history,
culture,
theology, and
politics. He founded a small Egyptian Quranist group that is neither
Sunni nor
Shia. In 1987, he was fired from
Al-Azhar University after expressing his liberal views. One of his fellow Islamic scholars at Al-Azhar University, Sheikh Jamal Tahir, took up the same Quran alone stance. Mansour was
exiled from Egypt, and lives in the United States as a political refugee. In the United States, he established the ''Ahl-Alquran'' website.
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