Shepard, William

Khālid Muḥammad Khālid (1920–96) was an Egyptian writer and essayist known for his popular and often passionate writings on religion and society. He was born in a middle-class family in al-ʿAdwa, a village in Sharqiyya Province, and his father, Shaykh Muḥammad Khālid, more than …

Muḥammad Aḥmad Khalafallāh (1916?–97) is known for his modernist views and especially for his controversial studies of the Qurʾān. He was born in the Sharqiyya Governorate in Lower Egypt and attended both traditional religious schools and government schools. He then studied at t…