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The democrat Iran’s Leading Reformist Intellectual Tries to Reconcile Religious Duties and Human Rights

By • Mar 14th, 2004 • Category: Works On Soroush

By Laura Secor, IF IRAN’S DEMOCRATIC REFORM movement has a house intellectual, it’s Abdolkarim Soroush. A small, soft-spoken philosopher with fiercely expressive eyebrows, Soroush specializes in mysticism, Sufi poetry, Islamic theology, chemistry, pharmacology, and the philosophy of science. Although he once worked for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s revolutionary government, he now advances a powerful argument for […]