This year’s Erasmus Prize, which is endowed with € 150,000, goes to Sadik Al-Azm, Fatema Mernissi and Abdulkarim Soroush. Martina Sabra spoke to laureate Al-Azm, who currently teaches in Antwerp, Belgium. “The prize came as a huge surprise to me,” says 69-year-old Sadik Al-Azm in his office in Antwerp. His delight is plain to see. […]
Al-Jazeerah, April 22, 2004 A specter haunts the world, and that specter is Islam. This is not the Islam discoverable in the pages of the Qur’an and life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), but a mythical Islam that is the product of the new form of anti-Islamism that Yossi Klein Halevi, writing in the Los Angeles […]
Erasmus Prize 2004 awarded to Sadik Jalal Al-Azm, Fatema Mernissi and Abdulkarim Soroush The Patron, H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and Board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, have decided to award the Erasmus Prize 2004 to Sadik Jalal Al-Azm (Syria), Fatema Mernissi (Morocco) and Abdulkarim Soroush (Iran). The Erasmus Prize is awarded annually […]
Published in the Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, Vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 141-148, April 2004. Abdul Karim Soroush, Naghdi va daramadi bar tazaad-e dialectiki [A Critique and a Prologue to Dialectical Contradiction], Serat cultural Institute Publishing, Tehran, 1994. Soroush harshly assaults the traditional dialectic methodology, and he argues that its use can be […]
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 […]
CONDOLEEZZA RICE: ANTI-THEOCRATIC SHIA IN IRAQ THREATEN MULLAHS IN TEHRAN; U.S. CAN’T AFFORD TO WAIT FOR IMMINENT DANGER TO PREEMPT; PUTIN’S KREMLIN HAS TOO MUCH POWER; TOUGH U.S. STANCE HAS GIVEN NEW LIFE TO NPT; UNRAVELING KHAN NETWORK PROVES NORTH KOREA SEEKS HEU BOMB Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor to U.S. President George Bush, sat […]
NOBEL LAUREATES February 20. 2004 IF SHIITE MAJORITY COMES TO POWER IN IRAQ, IT WILL ENHANCE DEMOCRACY IN IRAN Abdolkarim Soroush, the Iranian scholar of Islam, is widely regarded, by critics and supporters alike, as “the Martin Luther of Islam.” His most important work is “The Hermeneutical Expansion and Contraction of the Theory of Shariah.” […]
D+C Development and Coopeartaion 2/2004 By Katajun Amirpur Conservative mullahs continue to hold political sway in Iran but they are no longer in control of the interpretation of religious rules. Today, open-minded theologians are working on a liberal interpretation of Islam, which is attracting attention even beyond Iran’s borders. The most prominent of the new […]
Sharqh, Daily Newspaper, No. 109, Jan. 7th, 2004, Page 4 Prominent Iranian philosopher Dr Abdolkarim Soroush takes the elections seriously because he believes in democratic moves. He, however, says one can hold either a positive or negative view of democratic moves. The renowned university professor is of the view that the next parliaments will not […]
