Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah

Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah (1916-1991) is an Egyptian Islamic modernist thinker and writer.

In 1947, the Al-Azhar University refused his thesis entitled The Narrative Art in the Holy Qur'an (and denied him the opportunity to defend it) as he was suggesting that holy texts are allegoric and that we should not see them as something fixed but as a moral direction. For his thesis, he was accused of atheism and ignorance.

Afterwards, he started a thesis on a non-religious subject and received his doctorate in 1952. He then worked in education and ended his career at the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.