Voice of an Exile: Reflections on Islam, by Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd, Esther R. Nelson

Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd, Esther R. Nelson, Voice of an Exile: Reflections on Islam, Westport Connecticut London, Praeger, 2004. In 1995 Ayman al-Zawahiri, a prominent terrorist figure recently associated with Al Queda and al-Jihad, issued a bounty against Dr. Nasr Abu Zaid, a respected Islamic scholar at Cairo University. What was Zaid's offense? Arguing that Islam's holy texts should be interpreted in the historical and linguistic context of their time, and that new interpretations should accoun..