Khālid Muḥammad Khālid - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Shepard, William
Leiden
Brill
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Khālid Muḥammad Khālid (1920-96) was an Egyptian writer and essayist known for his popular and often passionate writings on religion and society. He was born in a middle-class family in al-ʿAdwa, a village in Sharqiyya Province, and his father, Shaykh Muḥammad Khālid, more than once struggled against the injustices of the existing "feudal" system. Khālid attended al-Azhar and graduated from it in 1947 with a degree from the Faculty of Sharīʿa and then gained a teaching certificate, also from al-Azhar. He worked under the Ministry