Author Archive

Shame and Responsibility

By • Dec 30th, 2013 • Category: Lectures

Talk by Prof. Abdolkarim Soroush on 3/5/2013 (Workshop “Entangled Categories? Shame, Moral Sentiments and the Visual”)



Quran , Philosophy and Law

By • Nov 27th, 2013 • Category: Lectures

Lecture of Abdolkarim Soroush (University of Notre Dame)



Muslims for Peace — Kelly James Clark

By • Feb 17th, 2013 • Category: Works Cites Soroush

Last week I wrote about the most persecuted religion in the world — Christianity. So dire is the persecution of Christians, Christianity is in danger of disappearing from its homeland. Christianity is most in peril, I noted, in Muslim-majority countries where either by official policy or official laxity, Christians are discriminated against, persecuted, tortured, threatened […]



Support Victims of Domestic Violence in Iran

By • Jun 9th, 2012 • Category: News

A Special Program (in Farsi) with Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush & Mr. Abdolali Bazargan At ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTER OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Please join us on Saturday June 9, 2012 at 6:45 PM in a special program (in Farsi) with Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush and Mr. Abdolali Bazargan to discuss the issue of domestic violence in Iran and […]



Islamic Reform: Iranian Style – A lecture by Abdulkarim Soroush

By • May 9th, 2012 • Category: News

A Public Lecture at University of Davis, CA
Middle East/ South Asia Studies
The Suad Joseph Lecture Series in Iranian Studies



Nilou Mobasser Obituary

By • Mar 21st, 2012 • Category: Works On Soroush

By: Malu Halasa By translating the work of the Persian scholar Abdolkarim Soroush, the dissident journalist Akbar Ganji and many other censored Iranians, my friend Nilou Mobasser gave voice to a complex culture, particularly in the US, where these authors were published in English for the first time. In 1997, she translated Ghazi Rabihavi’s Look Europe, […]



Critical Rationalism and Religious and Political Reform in Iran

By • Mar 20th, 2012 • Category: Works On Soroush

On 15 March, the Iranian intellectualAbdolkarim Soroush (real name: Hosein Haj Faraj Dabbagh) delivered the Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture 2012, at the London School of Economics (LSE). Although he has never directly studied under Popper, Soroush memorated that he was studying philosophy of science at Chelsea College (later absorbed into King’s College London) when Popper was teaching at LSE. […]



Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture

By • Mar 15th, 2012 • Category: News

Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture Date: Thursday 15 March 2012 Time: 6-7.30pm Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Speaker: Professor Abdulkarim Soroush Chair: Professor John Worrall Update, Monday 19 December: Please note, this event will be ticketed. For further details see ‘Ticket Information’ below. Professor Soroush will discuss the role of philosophy – and Popper’s thought […]



Critical Rationalism

By • Mar 15th, 2012 • Category: Lectures

On 15 March, the Iranian intellectualAbdolkarim Soroush delivered the Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture 2012, at the London School of Economics. Although he has never directly studied under Popper, Soroush memorated that…



Done and Undone in Islamic Reform

By • Mar 2nd, 2012 • Category: Lectures

Done and Un-done in Islamic Reform