An interview with Soroush, Published in Zanan, 1378/2000 Q. New religious thinking in our society has remained consistently silent on women’s issues. There may be a number of reasons for this silence: it may be that some of the thinkers involved feel that there’s no such thing as women-specific issues; or that women’s problems […]
Ali Akbar Mahdi Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, Volume 15 Number 2 November 1999 1. Introduction 2. The Student Movement during the Pahlavi Period 3. The Student Movement during Khomeini’s Rule …..3.1. Prior to the Cultural Revolution …..3.2. The Student Movement and the Cultural Revolution …..3.3. Student Organizations as the Arm of the State […]
The Story of the Cultural Revolution Right to the End They Didn’t Know Where They Were Meant to Be Going A Conversation with Dr Soroush About the Cultural Revolution and Things that Were Supposed to Happen and to Be Publicatished in Lowh, Mehr 1378/October 1999 Q. All that’s been said about seminary-university unity has taken […]
Middle East Review of International Affairs (Volume 3, No. 3 September 1999) By: Charles Kurzman Editor’s Summary: The author suggests that there is an important and growing group in Middle Eastern Islam which advocates liberal solutions to the problems of religion and society. Professor Kurzman outlines the different approaches of these thinkers and the reasons […]
Payvand’s Iran News …1/4/01 Scientific Development, Political Development Abdolkarim Soroush, the text of his speech in the seminar on ‘Tradition and Modernism’ held in Beheshti University, May, 1999. Kian Monthly Review, Vol. 10, No 54, Oct-Nov 2000 The subject of my discussion is a simple point that I don’t think anybody would be totally ignorant […]
Islam and Pluralism, University of London
Conversation with AbdolKarim Soroush Intellectuals: The Powerless Wielders of Power In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Q. One of the issues that has exercised your mind in recent years has been the relationship between knowledge and power, and especially the relationship between the bearers of power and knowledge. First, in a […]
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender: the religious debate in contemporary Iran, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999 I began studying the works of Abdolkarim Sorush in autumn 1995, after the second of my debates with Payam-e Zan, and following the disruption his lectures by the Ansar-e Hezbollah, “helpers of Hezbollah.”(1) On 11 October, Sorush was invited […]
