Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) – Iran Quarterly Report – 24 June 1996 . . . Willing to accomodate women, the establishment has been having problems dealing with a leading religious reformer, Abdol-karim Soroush. The government is alleged to be involved in violent efforts to shut up Soroush by giving support to a new […]
The Guardian – Friday 7 June 1996 As the gulf widens in Iran between hardline clergy and reformist thinkers both in and outside the clerical establishment, a professor at Tehran University has become the focus of conflict. Lectures by Abdolkarim Sorush have been repeatedly stopped or disrupted by militants, apparently with the tacit support of […]
The Guardian – Thursday 6 June 1996 Kathy Evans speaks to a man whose controversial ideas on his faith have won him supporters and made him enemies ABDOLKARIM Sorush probably wouldn’t attract a second glance on the underground. He is balding, bearded and bespectacled, and looks an unlikely candidate for the job of visionary. But […]
Q-News International (British Muslim weekly), No 220-221, 14-27 June 1996 In his native Iran, Abdolkarim Soroush, has had to contend with physical assaults and death threats. Here, on a lecture tour, his most serious obstacle has been the high pollen count. Feted and slated for his radical views, Dr Sorush has set the academic world […]
