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Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud says in his book: “Morality grows by interaction from within, not by dictation... indoctrination is just paint on the outside, and if it does not find the right surface to receive it, it dries up and falls off after a while.”
Book description:
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Author's name: Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud
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Number of pages: 88 pages
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The theme of the book: Marxism and Islam
About the author:
Mustafa Mahmoud is an Egyptian philosopher, doctor, and writer who wrote 89 books, including scientific, religious, philosophical, social, and political books, in addition to tales, plays, and travel stories.
Mustafa Mahmoud was the host of more than 400 episodes of his popular television program Science and Faith.
In 1979, he established his mosque in Giza, known as the Mustafa Mahmoud Mosque.
The mosque has three medical centers that focus on treating low-income people, and has formed mercy caravans consisting of sixteen doctors. The mosque includes the Astronomical Society at the Mahmoud Mosque, and a geology museum, which is run by specialized professors, and includes a collection of granite rocks, mummified butterflies with their various forms and some marine creatures.
Mustafa Kamal Mahmoud Hussein Al Mahfouz was born on December 27, 1921, in the village of Mit Khaqan in the Shibin al-Koum district of Menoufia governorate.
His father died in 1939 after years of paralysis. He studied medicine and graduated in 1953, specializing in pulmonary diseases, but turned to writing and research in 1960.
He married in 1961 and the marriage ended in divorce in 1973, and he had two sons, Amal and Adham.
He remarried in 1983 to Mrs. Zeinab Hamdy, a marriage that also ended in divorce in 1987.
In the early 1900s, a number of intellectual figures addressed the issue of atheism. For example, Ismail Adham's Why Am I an Atheist appeared, Taha Hussein published his book on Jahiliyya poetry, and Naguib Mahfouz had his first experiences of religious suffering and spiritual thirst.
Mustafa Mahmoud lived in Mit al-Karma, next to the famous “Al-Mahatta” mosque, one of the famous Sufi shrines in Egypt, which had a clear impact on his ideas and orientations.
He started his life excelling in school, until his Arabic teacher beat him; he became angry and dropped out of school for three years until this teacher moved to another school and Mustafa Mahmoud returned to continue studying. In his father's house, he set up a small laboratory in which he made soap and pesticides to kill insects, then dissected them, and when he entered medical school, he was known as “the dissector,” because he stood all day in front of the bodies of the dead, asking questions about the secret of life and death and the afterlife.
Mustafa Mahmoud died at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 31, 2009, 12 Dhu'lqa'dah 1430 AH, after a treatment journey that lasted several months, at the age of 87. The funeral was held from his mosque in the Mohandiseen neighborhood, and no celebrities or officials attended the funeral, and the media spoke little about him, which led to the frustration of his family.
Scientific books and works:
At the beginning, he wrote articles in Egyptian newspapers, and published his first story “The Little Cat” in Al-Risala magazine in 1947, and wrote his articles in Rose Al-Youssef magazine when he was a student, then worked as an editor at Al-Nidaa newspaper, and in 1948 Kamel Al-Shenawi published his first work in Last Hour magazine, joined Al-Tahrir magazine in 1952, resigned from the medical profession in 1960, and continued to write his column in Rose Al-Youssef “Confessions of Lovers,” which was collected in a book in 1969, and at the same time he wrote the column “Confess to Me” in Sabah Al-Khair magazine.
Professor Mustafa Mahmoud's writings went through two phases, the first period between 1950 and 1970, dominated by the literary and philosophical character, and then the second phase after 1970, where he tended to write on Islamic thought, the topics of political Islam and criticism of Marxism, communism and socialism, as well as criticism of the Torah and Baha'i, and writing about his journey of research into religions that he formulated in his books: Dialogue with My Atheist Friend, My Journey from Doubt to Faith, and The Mystery of Life and the Mystery of Death.
His books have won several awards. He won the 1970 State Encouragement Prize in Literature for The Man Below Zero, the 1975 State Encouragement Prize in Travel Literature for An Adventure in the Desert, and the 1995 State Appreciation Prize in Literature.
Some of his books were criticized, as at the beginning of his career for his book God and Man in 1956, he faced a wide attack and the book was confiscated and then submitted to trial, and the trial committee at the time was satisfied with confiscating the book, then the ban on the book was lifted during the era of Muhammad Anwar Sadat, then Mustafa Mahmoud retracted some of the ideas that he put forward in the book and replaced it with a book of dialogue with my atheist friend, as well as the book The Qur'an: An Attempt at a Modern Understanding was widely criticized, and the criticisms subsided for a long time until the publication of the book “Intercession” in 2000, and 14 books were published in response to this book, including the book by Muhammad Fouad Shaker, a professor of Islamic law, and some believe that he is not specialized in the fields of religious sciences and philosophy in which he writes.
Some of his best-known works include:
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My Journey from Doubt to Faith
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Conversation with my atheist friend
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55 love issues
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Spider novel
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In Love and Life Writer
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I saw God
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Soul and body
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The Age of Monkeys Author Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud
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Israel The Beginning and the End
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Secrets of the Quran
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Puzzle of life
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The Qur'an is a living organism
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Einstein and relativity
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The mystery of death
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who laughed until they cried
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Quranic Psychology
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Songs of Sin and Innocence
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Islam is what it is
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The greatest secret
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Confessions of lovers
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What's Behind the Gate of Death
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Dreams
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The grand conspiracy
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Antichrist
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Muhammad, may God's peace and blessings be upon him
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Political Islam and the coming battle
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Reading for the future
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The world of secrets
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The Qur'an: An attempt at a modern understanding
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Existence and nothingness
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Reflections on God's World
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God
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Man Below Zero
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Midnight Diary
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Tourists in God's world
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The Road to Hell
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