Archive for January, 1999

Islam and Pluralism, University of London

By • Jan 14th, 1999 • Category: Lectures

Islam and Pluralism, University of London

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Intellectuals, The Powerless Wielders of Power

By • Jan 1st, 1999 • Category: Interviews

 Conversation with AbdolKarim Soroush Intellectuals: The Powerless Wielders of Power   In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Q. One of the issues that has exercised your mind in recent years has been the relationship between knowledge and power, and especially the relationship between the bearers of power and knowledge. First, in a […]


Challenges and Complicities: Abdolkarim Soroush and Gender

By • Jan 1st, 1999 • Category: Works On Soroush

Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender: the religious debate in contemporary Iran, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999 I began studying the works of Abdolkarim Sorush in autumn 1995, after the second of my debates with Payam-e Zan, and following the disruption his lectures by the Ansar-e Hezbollah, “helpers of Hezbollah.”(1) On 11 October, Sorush was invited […]


Religious Pluralism

By • Jan 1st, 1999 • Category: Works On Soroush

A Debate between Soroush and Kadivar (Monazereyeh Soroush va Kadivar darbareyeh pluralismeh deenee) Tehran: Salam Publications, 1st publication 1999, 5th publication 2000 Dr Abdolkarim Soroush stood for religious pluralism in a paper called Straight Paths (Serathayeh mostaqim), Kian Monthly (banned in 2000). Under the unhealthy climate in which politics is developing, critiques on this paper […]