Rivival and Reform Achievements and Challenges
By admin • Feb 15th, 2012 • Category: LecturesRivival and Reform Achievements and Challenges
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Soroush to Khamenei: You Must Accept Criticism so that We can Move towards National Reconciliation
By admin • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Works On SoroushAbdulkarim Soroush, a religious thinker and a critic of the Iranian state, has written an open letter to the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, advising him to begin accepting criticism so that Iranians can move towards national reconciliation, civic life and modernity. Dr Soroush, who has had to live outside Iran for years and lectures […]
You Have Turned Iran into a Grim Land
By admin • Dec 22nd, 2011 • Category: Works By SoroushA letter from Soroush to Khamenei Mohammad Nourizad, the brave and free-minded artist, who has opened the way to critical admonitions and admonitory criticism, has invited writers and thinkers to join him; to perform their duty of enjoining virtue and opposing vice; and to do their share in reinforcing the criticism in the hope […]
The Crust and the Core of Rule by the People
By admin • Dec 1st, 2011 • Category: Works By SoroushA wretched judiciary is tyranny’s strength and a strong judiciary makes for wretched tyrants, and today the weakest and most wretched branch of power in Iran is the judiciary. Today, in democratic states, the most unprotected of people find some protection in the law and the judiciary, which lends them a hand to fend off […]
Shi’i Contributions to the Disciplines of Fiqh and Kalam
By admin • Oct 8th, 2011 • Category: LecturesShi’i Contributions to the Disciplines of Fiqh and Kalam
Secularism and The World of Islam
By admin • Sep 1st, 2011 • Category: LecturesSecularism and The World of Islam
Rumi, The Prophet of Love – A lecture by Abdulkarim Soroush
By admin • May 23rd, 2011 • Category: NewsThe Iranian Autumn of Discontent with Religion by Ahmad Sadri
By admin • Mar 4th, 2011 • Category: Works On SoroushThe “Arab Spring” that is blossoming in the Middle East might have been inspired by the Iranian uprising of 2009, but Iranians have not been able to emulate the Arab model. The Iranian religious autocracy possesses both the means and the will to mow down potential crowds of protesters to protect itself. As a result […]
