Mahfuz's secular liberalism so enraged Egypt's Islamists that one fanatic knifed the old man, paralyzing his writing hand.
Mahfuz was not liberal and never got cut.
mnli hypothesis: Mahfuz was not liberal and never got cut. premise: Mahfuz's secular liberalism so enraged Egypt's Islamists that one fanatic knifed the old man, paralyzing his writing hand.