The Egypt Daily News ran an op-ed by Reuven Firestone, CRCC senior fellow, about the late Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd.
Parts of the Muslim world are experiencing a period in which scholarship and creativity such as Abu Zayd’s are being suppressed by authoritarian governments, which have found strange bedfellows in their obsession to hold onto power at any cost. The most threatening force to despots is always the true scholars and creative thinkers, those who are willing to shout out that the emperor has no clothes. That shout is made not only through politics but also through scholarship and the arts.
