Khalafallāh, Muḥammad Aḥmad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Shepard, William
Leiden
Brill
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Muḥammad Aḥmad Khalafallāh (1916?-97) is known for his modernist views and especially for his controversial studies of the Qurʾān. He was born in the Sharqiyya Governorate in Lower Egypt and attended both traditional religious schools and government schools. He then studied at the Faculty of Arts at the Egyptian University (later Cairo University), completing his baccalaureate in 1939 and his master's degree in 1942, with a thesis titled al-Jadal fī l-Qurʾān ("Polemic in the Qurʾān"), which was later published as Muḥammad wa-l-quwā al-muḍadda ("