Archive for April, 2009

A Congregation of Bees, not a Congregation of Parrots

By • Apr 16th, 2009 • Category: Interviews

Interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By: Bizhan Mumivand and Hossein Sokhanvar Q.  To begin with, could you please tell us a bit about what you’ve been doing in terms of research and academic activities while you’ve been away from Iran?   A.  I’ve been away from Iran for two and a half years.  During the first […]



Boundlessness and Enclosures

By • Apr 16th, 2009 • Category: Works By Soroush

(Forms and Formlessness 5 ) This is the published version of the last of a five-part series of talks given by Dr Soroush under the general heading “Surat va bi-Surati” (Forms and Formlessness). This fifth part was published in the November-December 2001 edition of the now-banned journal Aftab.  It also includes the question and answer […]



Some of our Clerics are no Better than the Taliban

By • Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: Interviews

Interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By Nooshabeh Amiri Paris, April 2009 Q.  It seems that, these days, the West is very interested in the movement that you call “religious modernism”.  Is that right?  And why? A.  Yes, that’s right.  But, unfortunately, the West’s interest in the question of Islam and religious modernism doesn’t have a very […]