Author: Gamal Omar

I was listening to a lecture in English by German researcher Angelika Neufirt, presented at the Ismaili Studies Center at Aga Khan University in London this year, on the literary lesson of the Quran, and I was thinking about the lack of interest in the school of Sheikh Amin al-Khouli at Fouad I University in studying the subject. In all the lectures I have heard her give on literary studies, she makes no reference to these efforts. At one point in the lecture, she mentioned the name Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, pronouncing it in the Egyptian dialect rather than in…