Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
The author says that Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfouz was sued for adding to the list of God’s Fairest Names. He added that the lawyer also demanded the separation of Mahfouz from his wife, like the case of Islamic thinker Dr. Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd.
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2006 to Friday, February 10, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf esteems the great contributions in Islamic thinking of well-known Egyptian writer and professor of Arabic literature, Dr. Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd, who recently left Egypt for The Netherlands after a court ordered him to separate from his wife.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
Khālid Bura‘ī presents a list of banned books in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, January 2, 2006
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd, a celebrated modern scholar of Qur’ānic studies, who fled to the Netherlands after the Egyptian courts ordered that he be forcibly divorced from his wife on charges of apostasy, argues for reform of religious thought and an end to corruption.
Date of source: Friday, November 25, 2005
The Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought has this year granted its award to Dr. Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd, an Arab Muslim scholar, charged with being an apostate because of his controversial interpretations of Islamic texts and calls for religious reform.
Date of source: Monday, October 31, 2005
Egyptian writer, Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd has been awarded this year’s Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Date of source: Sunday, August 4, 2002
Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid speaks about the problem of linking Islam with terrorism and presents two approaches to deal with the problem. The first is to show Qur’anic texts that call for peace and tolerance and to interpret the texts calling for violence within the framework of their historical...
Date of source: Monday, November 25, 2002
Dr. Nasr Abu Zeid’s homesickness turns into a rage. This is clear in his statement to journalist Muhammad Al-Atasi. While he should be in Cairo during Ramadan, he weeps and speaks about death and farewell. The return of Abu Zeid to Egypt would be a protection for Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2002
The year report of 2001 including an overview of the special reports written for the RNSAW. The year 2001 was marked by a strong increase in the number of special reports, providing readers with information that is not available elsewhere.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 4, 2004
The controversial thinker Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid arrived to Beirut as head of the Arab Institute for Renewing Thought, which was inaugurated yesterday. More than 100 thinkers, researchers and academics have come from Europe and the U.S. to join Zeid in launching the institute.
Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid...