Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Fiqh scholars, Sharia judges, Ahmed Subhy Mansour, Qadi, Akhtar Raza Khan, Muhammad Taqi Usmani, Syed Mumtaz Alam Gillani, Faisal Ahmad Shinwari, Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz, Yousef Saanei, Qazi Syed Inayatullah, Hassan Khaled, Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi, Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari, Yusuf an-Nabhani, Zulkifli Nordin, Hassan Raza Ghadeeri, Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, Nasib al-Bitar, Khaled Abou El Fadl, Ibn al-Khashshab, Ibn Humaid, Qadi al-Nu´man, Ali Abdel Raziq, Ahmad Khansari, Taha Jabir Alalwani, Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi, Ahmad Muhammad Shakir, Qadi Thanaullah Panipati, Sheikh ul-Islam, Hussam ad-Din Jarallah, Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal, Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani, Kamil al-Husayni, Sulaiman Ja´abari, Tanzil-ur-Rahman, Talgat Tadzhuddin, Hammad ibn Salamah, Abdul Salam Azimi, Bahauddin Baha, Qazi Beiza´i, Mohamed Azmi Mohamed. Excerpt: Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour (also Ahmad Subhy Mansour and Ahmad Subhi Mansur), born March 1, 1949, in Abu Harair, Kafr Saqr, Sharqia, Egypt is an Egyptian-born noted Islamic scholar and cleric, with expertise in Islamic history, culture, theology, and politics. He founded the small Egyptian Quranists sect that is neither Sunni nor Shiite, was exiled from Egypt, and lives in the United States as a political refugee. Mansour was an advocate for democracy and human rights in Egypt for many years, during which time he was isolated by Islamic extremist clerics and persecuted by the government. He was arrested and served time in prison for his liberal political, religious, and social views. In May 1985, Mansour was discharged from his teaching and research position due to his liberal views, which were not acceptable to the religious authorities who controlled much of university policies and programs. Mansour sought and was granted political asylum in the United States in 2002. He has served as a visiting fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, and at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. Sheikh Mansour was fired from Al-Azhar University after expressing his hadith rejector views. One of Mansour´s fellow Islamic scholars at Al Azhar University Sheik Jamal Tahir took up the same Quran alone stance. Mansoor received his junior middle school education in 1964, and ranked second in the Republic on the national exam. He graduated from Al-Azhar Secondary School, in Sharkeya, Egypt, in 1969, and ranked fourth in country on the national university entrance examination. He then attended Al-Azhar University in Cairo, a prestigious Sunni religious university. There he studied Muslim History, earning his B.A with Highest Honors in 1973, his M.A. with Honors in 1975, and his Ph.D with Highest Honors in 1980. He founded a small Egyptian sect the Quranists, who believe: the Quran is the sole source of Islam and its laws (they reject hadith, or reported traditions of
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