Editing Nasr Abu Zayd (section)

==Career==
In 1982, he joined the faculty of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Cairo University as an assistant professor. He became an associate professor there in 1987. From 1985 to 1989, he worked as a visiting lecturer at [[Osaka University of Foreign Studies]] in Japan.<ref name=FRINHAZ2004:170>[[#FRINHAZ2004|Kermani, "From revelation to interpretation", 2004]]: p.170</ref>

In 1992 the process of his being considered for promotion to full professor at Cairo University morphed from a routine academic process into a "legal nightmare for him and his wife."<ref name=cook-2000-46>{{cite book|last1=Cook|first1=Michael|title=The Koran : A Very Short Introduction|date=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=https://archive.org/details/koranveryshorti00cook |url-access=registration|quote=The Koran : A Very Short Introduction.|isbn=0192853449|page=[https://archive.org/details/koranveryshorti00cook/page/46 46]}}</ref> While he was eventually promoted, he was sued by conservative Muslims and a Court of Appeals declared him an [[Apostasy in Islam|apostate]] and divorced him from his wife. This was followed by calls for his death and exile to Europe where he obtained the position of Visiting Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at [[Leiden University]].<ref name=OISO/> (see [[Nasr Abu Zayd#The Nasr Abu Zayd case|below]])

In Europe he held the Ibn Rushd Chair of Humanism and Islam at the University for Humanistics, [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]], Netherlands, while still supervising MA and PhD students at the University of Leiden as well. He also participated in a research project on Jewish and Islamic Hermeneutics as Cultural Critique in the Working Group on [[Islam and modernity]] at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin). In 2005, he received the [[Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought]], Berlin. His wife returned several times to Egypt for discussion on MA and [[PhD]] theses at the French department at Cairo University. Dr. Abu Zayd also returned several times to Egypt after 1995, but mostly to visit family.