The Times – Monday 3 November 1997 From Michael Theodoulou in Nicosia PRISDENT KHATAMI of Iran has won a significant battle against Islamic hardliners by securing an exit visa for the country’s leading intellectual dissident, who advocates less clerical involvement in government. After an intense behind-the-scenes wrangle, Professor Abdolkarim Soroush was allowed at the eleventh […]
The Guardian – Saturday 12 July 1997 Iran’s leading ideological dissident, Abdul Karim Soroush, has had his passport confiscated by the Iranian intelligence ministry and been prevented from attending a conference in Britain. The action was disclosed in a letter from Professor Soroush to St Anthony’s College, Oxford. The move against the popular Tehran academic […]
Dear Dr Rogen Thank you very much for your warm invitation and many congratulations for your success in holding such a brilliant and timely conference on Rethinking Islam. As to me myself, most unfortunately my ‘delicate situation in Iran’ as you made a clever allusion to in your letter of invitation, prevents me from attending […]
CNN – June 1997 – following the surprise election of Mohammad Khatami in presidential elections CNN Presenter: Abdolkarim Soroush is a religious philosopher and a dissident. He has been fired from his job as a professor, his writings are restricted, and he is often harassed. A few years ago he advanced a religious theory for […]
An in depth interview with Abdolkarim Soroush Interview by Mahmoud Sadri Mahmoud Sadri: I would like to ask you for an account of your intellectual development. I am certainly interested in whether you distinguish any turning points, watersheds, or distinct periods in the evolution of your thought. Abdolkarim Soroush: In the name of God the […]
From: Ali M. ali@swri.edu On Sunday (March 9, 1997), more than 200 people attended Dr. Soroush’s talk on Molavi (Rumi) in Houston, Texas, at short notice. Dr. Soroush received a standing ovation from the audience, and began his talk with a short introduction about Molavi. He mentioned that he has been researching “Masnavi” (One of […]
From: Payman Arabshahi payman@u.washington.edu Dr. Abdol Karim Soroush, the reformist Islamic scholar currently on a tour of North America spoke tonight on “Freedom, Pluralism, and Islamic Thought” at the University of Washington. The lecture, which was very well received by the more than 100 people in attendance, started with a discussion of the concept of […]
Jalaei pour, H. R. The Iranian Islamic Revolution: Mass Mobilization and its Continuity during 1976-96, PhD. Dissertation, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1997 Chapter 6 The Causes of the Challenges inside the Mobilizer Core after the War 1988-96 Section 3 The Emergence of a Modern Intellectual Climate and the Change in the Ideological Scene: 1988-1996 […]
By Haleh Nazeri Lunaleh@aol.com One of the more interesting things about Dr. Soroush’slectures in New York was the different atmosphere at each venue. The lecture in Persian was standing room only, with the crowd consisting of a majority of men. There were women in attendance also, however, most were in hejab and seemed older. It […]
