AbdolKarim Soroush :: عبدالكريم سروش

Published in Iran at the Crossroads, edited by John L. Esposito and R. K. Ramazani (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 13-27. Mehrzad Boroujerdi  The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.  To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.  When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. Oscar Wilde, The Picture […]

 Overview Reinventing Khomeini offers a fresh interpretation of the ideological battles that paved the way for Mohammad Khatami and the struggle for political reform in Iran. These battles did not result from a sudden shift in the ideological climate, nor did the reform movement completely defy the ideology of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Rather, this movement […]

Some Aspects of the Problematic   During the past ten years we have noticed several Muslim ideologists and movements that explicitly, although in different ways and with different content, have formulated demands for democracy, legitimation of political power by popular mandate, Human Rights and liberties in the sense expressed in the UN¹s Declaration of 1948 […]

An interview with Abdol Karim Soroush Q. The subject of our discussion is « religious faith ». If I may, I’d like to begin by asking you, what’s your understanding and definition of religious faith? If we take religion to be composed of the three elements of religious experiences, religious beliefs and religious practices, what’s […]

 A summary of remarks by Abdolkarim Soroush and Charles Butterworth at The Middle East Institute, November 21, 2000 On November 21, MEI gathered two scholars, the Iranian thinker Abdolkarim Soroush, visiting professor at Harvard University, and Charles Butterworth, Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, for a discussion on “Islamic Democracy and Islamic […]

The Martin Marty Center  University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings October 19, 2000 By:  Scott Appleby Graphic and deeply disturbing images of violence, motivated in part by religious animosities, emanated from the Middle East last week. Such images, whether beamed from Israel, Palestine, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Northern Ireland, or the United States, overshadow a […]