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Egyptian physician and philosopher Mostafa Mahmoud frames Dialogue with My Atheist Friend as a conversation between two voices: his own, and a fictional atheist interlocutor who raises the questions that once shaped Mahmoud's own youthful drift toward materialism before his return to faith. The dialogue opens with a simple but weighty question, why do we believe, and moves through the classic challenges skeptics raise: does God exist, and who created God, among them.
Rather than staging a loud polemic, Mahmoud's book is a quiet, reasoned meditation that treats scientific and philosophical reasoning as allies of faith rather than threats to it, written in the accessible, conversational style that made him one of modern Egypt's most widely read religious writers.
No. It is a work of non-fiction — a philosophical and religious dialogue in which Mostafa Mahmoud responds to the classic objections raised by skeptics (does God exist, who created God, and similar questions) through reasoned argument grounded in science and logic. The "atheist friend" is a literary device Mahmoud uses to voice the doubts he once wrestled with himself, not a character in a novel.