By Abdou Filali-Ansary Journal of Democracy 7.2 (1996) 76-80 Robin Wright and Bernard Lewis both seem to address the question of whether there is an “Islamic Reformation” going on now, and if there is, what content, direction, and influence it is likely to have. The raising of this question betokens an important shift in the […]
By: Robin Wright Robin Wright is global-affairs correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and former Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times of London. Her books include Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam (1985) and In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade (1990). Journal of Democracy 7.2 (1996) 64-75 Of all the challenges […]
By: Valla Vakili Council on Foreign Relations Executive Summary Abdolkarim Soroush is a leading Iranian religious intellectual with highly controversial ideas on religion and politics. This paper and the Muslim Politics Program were made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation. The main points of his political thought, discussed at greater length in […]
For the Flower of Freedom The following is a response by Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush, a reformist Islamic thinker, to a recent statement by Iran‘s Foreign Minister Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati. Dr. Soroush, who recently returned to Iran after attending conferences on the Middle East in Europe and the United States, rejects accusations of creating “scandal” […]
Text in Context Lecture Delivered at McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies 13th of April 1995 and published in Liberal Islam, a sourcebook, edited by Charles Kurzman, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, PP 244-251 (1) By: Abdolkarim Soroush The science of nature is a human endeavor to understand the nature, and the science […]
The Guardian, 1 February 1995 (quoted from The Los Angeles Times – January 1995) Robin Wright in Tehran meets the scholar whose ideas could reconstruct Muslim societies ABDOL KARIM SOROUSH is an unassuming figure. Small, bespectacled and soft-spoken, he looks almost fragile as he sits in his office at the Research Institute for Human Sciences […]
A Research Program for Islamic Revivalism (An Iranian Perspective) Review Draft— February 1995 by: Hossein Kamali The following article by Hossein Kamaly is on the ideas of Iranian thinker Abdolkarim Soroush on religious and scientific knowledge. Address comments to the author at Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY 10003, or preferably via electronic […]
Foreign Policy September 22, 1994 By: Edward G. Shirley The growing volume of discussion in Iran about widespread public anomie, particularly in conservative clerical circles, reveals the urgent fear that the moral fiber of Iranian society is under severe stress. The allure of the ever-present, ever-corrupting West is usually cited as the primary culprit in […]
Interview with Dr Abdulkarim Soroush by Hamideh Safamanesh For the Iranian Students News Agency “When Mr Khatami proposed the idea of the dialogue of civilizations, it was a kind of reaction to the idea of the clash of civilizations. The clash of civilizations was first mentioned by Bernard Lewis, a professor at Princeton University. […]
