An interview with Abdolkarim Soroush by Sa’id Ra’i for the Iranian Labour News Agency January 2004 Q. Dr Soroush, you have been away from Iran for some time and we have been deprived. The fact of the matter is, when we look at your works over the past one or two years, we see a […]
By: Forough Jahanbakhsh There has been no major revolution in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement without intellectuals. —Edward Said, Presentations of the Intellectual Intellectual history is an elusive subject. How does one define it? What issues exactly does it address? Who is an intellectual? When and where exactly […]
I debated whether this was indeed the right forum to place this post. Though not about architecture, the interview with Abdolkarim Soroush entitled “Responsibilities of the Muslim Intellectual in the 21st Century”, deals with Islam and Modernity. This is really the basis for many of the discussions taking place today in the ArchNet Discussion Forum, […]
An Interview with Abdolkarim Soroush December 08, 2003 By Farish A. Noor Professor Abdolkarim Soroush is an Iranian philosopher and social scientist who is currently based at the Institute for Epistemological Research in Tehran, Iran. A well-known scholar and Islamist intellectual in Iran and abroad, his writings have been widely disseminated both in print and […]
An interview with Abdolkarim Soroush by Shargh newspaper December 2003 Q. Dr Soroush! I’d like us to discuss the question of rationality. Would you be so kind as to begin by pointing out the different interpretations that there are of rationality and also mentioning your own chosen interpretation, so that we can go on […]
Encounter (Radio National) Sunday 28/09/2003 Summary: Next week, the new library of Alexandria in Egypt will host a meeting that could be critical to the future of Islam. Muslim religious authorities, government and community leaders from Islamic communities around the world and Muslim scholars of Islam will gather there to dialogue about social justice, democracy […]
National Catholic Reporter The Independent Newsweekly September 12, 2003 Pluralism conference report; A conversation with Fr. Roger Haight; The Sant’Egidio conference; Slovakia preview By JOHN L. ALLEN JR. At a four-day summit of religious pluralists, or theologians who believe that all the world’s great religions are valid paths of salvation, I was especially struck […]
