Ahmed Subhy Mansour: Difference between revisions

'''Ahmed Subhy Mansour''' ({{lang-ar|أحمد صبحي منصور}}; born March 1, 1949) is an [[Egyptian Americans|Egyptian American]] [[activist]], [[Islam]]ic scholar dealing with [[Islamic history]], [[Islamic culture|culture]], [[Islamic theology|theology]], and [[Islamic politics|politics]].<ref name="ahl-alquran1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/aboutus.php |title=About Us |publisher=Ahl-alquran.com |accessdate=February 6, 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100131020530/http://ahl-alquran.com/English/aboutus.php| archivedate= 31 January 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> He founded a small Egyptian [[Quranist]] group that is neither [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] nor [[Shia Islam|Shia]]. In 1987, Mansour was fired from [[Al-Azhar University]] after expressing his Quranist views. One of Mansour's fellow Islamic scholars at Al-Azhar University, Sheikh Jamal Tahir, took up the same Quran alone stance.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q0RgmKbBEuUC&q=Quranist&pg=PA47 | title=Ground Zero Mosque: The Confessions of a Western-Middle-Eastern Muslim | publisher=AuthorHouse | author=Naf, Waleed | year=2011 | page=47 | isbn=978-1456739089 | access-date=2020-10-14 | archive-date=2022-03-20 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192301/https://books.google.com/books?id=q0RgmKbBEuUC&q=Quranist&pg=PA47 | url-status=live }}</ref> HeMansour was soon [[exile]]d from Egypt, and lives in the United States as a political refugee.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/838653591.html?dids=838653591:838653591&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+13%2C+2005&author=Don+Oldenburg&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Muslims'+Unheralded+Messenger%3B+Antiterrorism+Group+Founder+Hopes+To+Rally+a+Crowd&pqatl=google |title=Muslims' Unheralded Messenger; Antiterrorism Group Founder Hopes To Rally a Crowd |date= |accessdate=February 6, 2010 |archive-date=March 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311191532/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/838653591.html?dids=838653591%3A838653591&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&type=current&date=May+13%2C+2005&author=Don+Oldenburg&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Muslims%27+Unheralded+Messenger%3B+Antiterrorism+Group+Founder+Hopes+To+Rally+a+Crowd&pqatl=google |url-status=live }}</ref> In the United States, Mansour established the the ''Ahl-Alquran'' website.<ref>https://timep.org/2021/06/02/egypts-officials-dont-see-unrecognized-religious-minorities/</ref>