Archive for September, 2007

Enlightenment and Philosophy in Islam

By • Sep 24th, 2007 • Category: Interviews

By Michiel Leezenberg Michiel Leezenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, and Sabbatical Fellow at ISIM. Just prior to Soroush’s departure from the Netherlands, Michiel Leezenberg talked with him about the philosophical origins and dimensions of modernity in the Islamic world. Soroush opened with some of his impressions of the […]


What Religious Intellectualism Isn’t

By • Sep 6th, 2007 • Category: Lectures

Paper presented at a conference on religion and modernity in Tehran Religious intellectualism is “the way” for religious intellectuals. It is a school of thought that strives to benefit from both human experience and Prophetic experience; and it does not sacrifice either one of these for the other. It believes that, in the modern age, […]