Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah (Arabic: محمد أحمد خلف الله, 1916-1998) was an Egyptian Islamic modernist thinker and writer.
[3] In 1947, Cairo University refused his doctoral dissertation presented to the Department of Arabic entitled The Narrative Art in the Holy Qur'an (al-Fann al-qasasi fi al-Qurʾan al-karim), as he suggested that holy texts are allegoric and that they should not be seen as something fixed, but as a moral direction.
[5] The Qur'an uses all rhetorical ways at its disposal, which includes metaphors, biblical and pre-islamic narratives to convince people.
In Khalafallah's opinion, historical truth is not the main goal, but rather the religious and ethic sense conveyed by these stories.
[3] After retiring, he became engaged with the Egyptian Committee for Asian-African Solidarity and took on the role of vice president of the National Progressive Unionist (Tajammuʿ) party.