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Peace with Islam

By • Dec 1st, 2004 • Category: Works On Soroush


Peace with Islam

By • Dec 1st, 2004 • Category: Works Cites Soroush

Floy E. Doull ( fdoull@cablerocket.com ) “Peace with Islam” Animus (December 2004) – Memorial University   Introduction Two dominant and conflicting theses concerning world order have emerged since the end of the Cold War. They have found expression most directly and perhaps naively in the writings of two American political thinkers, Francis Fukuyama and Samuel […]



Modernity and the Making of Muslim Politics by Robert W. Hefner

By • Nov 12th, 2004 • Category: Works On Soroush


Dr. Soroush Receives the Erasmus Prize

By • Nov 4th, 2004 • Category: Works On Soroush

Prize Winners 2004: Sadik Al-Azm, Fatema Mernissi, Abdulkarim Soroush Uitreiking Erasmusprijs aan Sadik Al-Azm, Fatema Mernissi, Abdulkarim Soroush Amsterdam, 4 november 2004 Presentation Speech Presentation speech Erasmus Prize 2004, read by Dr A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan on behalf of H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Patron of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, […]



Treatise on Tolerance

By • Nov 1st, 2004 • Category: Works By Soroush

Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush’s essay titled ‘Treatise on Tolerance’ is published in the 2004 Praemium Erasmianum Foundation publication. This essay is Translated from the Persian by Nilou Mobasser. You may order the booklet from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, and it will be sent to you free of charge. Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Jan van Goyenkade 5 NL […]



Dr. Soroush Acknowledgement of Erasmus Prize 2004

By • Nov 1st, 2004 • Category: Works By Soroush

It is my duty to extend my gratitude to Erasmus Prize Foundation who extended to me this honor. As the saying in Arabic goes: “he who does not thank the creature will not thank the creator”, therefore I am thankful to both, the God and the servants of God. Erasmus Foundation awarded me not only a […]



Muslim Faculty and Students’ Letter to Ayatollah Khamenei on Dr. Soroush’s Attack in Qom

By • Oct 4th, 2004 • Category: News


The Search for Human Rights Within an Islamic Framework in Iran

By • Oct 1st, 2004 • Category: Works On Soroush


Deciphering Iran: The Political Evolution of the Islamic Republic and U.S. Foreign Policy After September 11

By • Oct 1st, 2004 • Category: Works On Soroush


Soroush Was Attacked

By • Sep 24th, 2004 • Category: News

QOM, Sept. 24 (Iran Daily) Muslim philosopher and university professor, Abdolkarim Soroush, was attacked by unknown assailants late Thursday while he was leaving the house of a well-known cleric in the city of Qom. According to IRNA, around 100 protestors had gathered around the house of Hojjatoleslam Shobeiri (the grandson of Ayatollah Shobeiri) where Soroush […]