Archive for October, 2000

Religious Intellectuals and Political Action in the Reform Movement

By • Oct 21st, 2000 • Category: Works On Soroush

A Holy War for Human Rights

By • Oct 19th, 2000 • Category: Works On Soroush

The Martin Marty Center  University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings October 19, 2000 By:  Scott Appleby Graphic and deeply disturbing images of violence, motivated in part by religious animosities, emanated from the Middle East last week. Such images, whether beamed from Israel, Palestine, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Northern Ireland, or the United States, overshadow a […]


Truth, Reason, Salvation

By • Oct 1st, 2000 • Category: Interviews

In A Soroush, Seratha-yi Mostaqim, (1377/1998) Tehran: Serat, pp137-196 Q. Since you put forward the theory of religious pluralism, there’s been much debate on the subject and various people have commented on it. But understanding the theory of pluralism must surely take precedence over criticising and judging it. A brief look at the debates suggests […]


Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam

By • Oct 1st, 2000 • Category: Works On Soroush

From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2000 By L. Carl Brown Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam. Abdolkarim Soroush, translated and edited by Mahmoud Aadri and Ahmad Sadri. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 236 pp. $29.95. In 1979, Soroush became the youngest member appointed to Iran’s post-revolution committee to purge and “Islamicize” Iran’s universities. By the […]