Archive for March, 2006

Mysticism in Contemporary Islamic Political Thought

By • Mar 22nd, 2006 • Category: Works On Soroush

Orhan Pamuk and Abdolkarim Soroush.(Essay) John von Heyking “You know, I’ve had enough of big ideas.” (2) Whether due to Western-style schemes of “development,” Marxism, nationalism, secularism, or Islamism, the Islamic world has suffered its share of ideological activism. What these ideologies share is a “big idea,” or ideology, that purports to transform the Islamic […]


Interview with Dr. Soroush Broadcast on Homa TV

By • Mar 9th, 2006 • Category: Interviews

by Dariush Sajjadi Broadcast on Homa TV on 9 March 2006  Q. I’d like to devote my first question to the crisis stemming from the publication of offensive cartoons of the Prophet of Islam. I remember that, more than six years ago, I saw you and Dr. Samuel Huntington, ‘the clash of civilizations’ theoretician, at […]