Ahmed Subhy Mansour
Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour | |
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| Born | March 1, 1949 |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Education | B.A (highest honors; 1973), M.A. (honors; 1975), Ph.D (highest honors; 1980) |
| Alma mater | Al-Azhar University |
| Occupation(s) | Islamic scholar and cleric |
| Known for | Islamic advocate for democracy and human rights. |
| Title | Sheikh Dr. |
| Board member of | International Quranic Center; Americans for Peace and Tolerance; Free Muslims Coalition |
Ahmed Subhy Mansour (Arabic: أحمد صبحي منصور; 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.