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Muhammad al-Nuwayhi (1917-1980) was an Egyptian literary scholar. He was Professor of Arabic literature at Cairo University.

Muhammad al-Nuwayhi was a student of Muhammad Khalaf Allah.

Al-Nuwayhi argued that Islam, properly understood, was a progressive religion compatible with modernity. Its distortion into fundamentalism had been caused by a special class of people monopolizing the interpretation of religion and inappropriately turning religious sources into timeless regulations.

References

1. Muhammad A. Abubakar, 'The problems of Arabic literary education in the Arab world: Muhammad al-Nuwayhī's contribution to the theme', Islamic Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer 1987), pp. 165-77
2. M. M. Badawi (1993). Modern Arabic Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 430. ISBN 978-0-521-33197-5. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
3. Baha Abu-Laban and Sharon McIrvin Abu-Laban, ed. (1986). The Arab World: Dynamics of Development. BRILL. pp. 92–3. ISBN 978-90-04-08156-7. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
4. Boullata, Issa J. (1990). Trends and issues in contemporary Arab thought. State University of New York Press. pp. 62–68. ISBN 978-0-7914-0194-1. Retrieved 31 August 2012.

Further reading

• Muhammad Auwal Abubakar (1984). The Contribution of Muhammad Al-Nuwayhi to Modern Arabic Literary Criticism in Egypt. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
• Reuven Snir, 'al-Nuwayhi, Muhammad', in Julie Scott Meisami, ed., Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, London: Routeledge, 1998, II, p. 590.

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