Ways into the corpus
Nine curated entries into Dr. Mansour's work, each pulling a representative slice across books, articles, fatwas, and recorded talks. Themes overlap; a single piece often sits under two or three at once. Start anywhere — the corpus rewards meandering.
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Quran-only methodology
The argument that the Quran, read on its own terms, is sufficient — and that the hadith corpus is the work of later communities.
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Reform of Islamic thought
Reform of fiqh, the law of apostasy and Hisbah, and the critique of inherited religious authority.
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Critique of Wahhabism & Salafism
A long, careful critique of Wahhabi, Salafi, and political-Islamic currents — their history, their politics, and their theology.
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Sufism & Mamluk-era Egypt
The earliest sustained work: Sufi orders, the religious establishment, and the state in Mamluk Egypt.
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Democracy & religious freedom
Religious freedom, political reform, and the architecture of democracy in Islamic thought.
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Inter-faith dialogue
Co-existence among Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities — read both historically and in the present.
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Egypt — history and society
Egypt in Mansour's writing: its religious history, its political present, its place in the Quran.
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Women's rights
Women's rights in Muslim societies — the textual record and the contemporary stakes.
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Personal narrative & witness
Persecution, exile, and the public testimony of a reformist scholar.
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