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Egypt and farag foda. ... Farag Foda said that Egypt belongs to Egyptians not Christians
or Muslims, he believed that equal rights should be had for all people. ...
Submitted by majin_gohan03 on May 1, 2007
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1) Explain the challenges that Farag Foda and Hamid Abuzeid presented to traditional forms of Islamic thought in Egypt.
Farag Foda and Hamid Abuzeid presented many challanges to traditional forms of Islamic thought in egypt. Foda represented a secular form of Islam, in which he though that Islam would be more rich if it was pushed out of the political arena, and that when this happened Egypt would be more prosperous. Farag Foda said that Egypt belongs to Egyptians not Christians or Muslims, he believed
that equal rights should be had for all people. Foda started political society called Enlightenment, Enlightenment was made up of mostly copts, which were Egyptians Christians. Foda stated that there must be a distinction drawn between Islamic religion and the Islamic state, he said that Muslims should learn not to confuse political evil with religious evil. Foda also stated that even when Islam was in its golden period, the world was not all good and there were still evil things going on, and assuming that having Islam as the ruling power over the people would not solve all their problems, he said that if people used god to justify everything, how could they justify god supporting the jews in the victory in 1967, and how can they say that god is angry with them so they have a declining starndard of living while the west is prosporus. This all went against the tradtional forms of Islamic thought in Egypt because there was always a hardline approach to religion and government. There was always a constant push by certain Islamic groups to make government and religion the same, and the thought was that having the two interconnected would be the only way to make Egypt prosporus.
Another man who challenged traditional Islamic thought in Egypt was Hamid Abuzeid. Abuzeid was an associate professor
in the Arabic department at Cairo University. Abuzeid used modern critical tools such as linguistics, semiotics, rhetoric and...
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