Muhammad al-Nuwayhi (1917-1980) was an Egyptian literary scholar.Muhammad A. Abubakar, 'The problems of Arabic literary education in the Arab world: Muhammad al-Nuwayhī's contribution to the theme', Islamic Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer 1987), pp. 165-77 He was Professor of Arabic literature at Cairo University.
Muhammad al-Nuwayhi was a student of Muhammad Khalaf Allah.
Al-Nuwayhi argued that Islam, properly understood, was a progressive religion compatible with modernity. Its distortion into fundamentalism had been caused by a special class of people monopolizing the interpretation of religion and inappropriately turning religious sources into timeless regulations.
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Further reading
Reuven Snir, 'al-Nuwayhi, Muhammad', in Julie Scott Meisami, ed., Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, London: Routeledge, 1998, II, p. 590.