The writer is a director at the South Asia Free Media Association, Lahore khaled.ahmed@tribune.com.pk The clergy and the state in Pakistan have had problems with Allama Iqbal’s view of the state in his Sixth Lecture. Iran too has had to deviate from the thought of Imam Khomeini on what is “permanent” and what is “changeable” […]
ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTER OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Guest lecturer for the first Saturday of Ramadan, August 14, 2010, is Dr. Abdulkarim Soroush (Farsi). Program starts with lectures in Farsi and English followed by Maghrib Prayer, Iftar, and dua. Widely considered to be Iran’s leading public intellectual, Abdulkarim Soroush was born in Tehran in 1945. After studying […]
by: Reuven Firestone A bright light of critical scholarship of Islam was just extinguished in Cairo with the death at 66 of professor Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on July 5. I saw him only last spring at the international conference “The Qur’an in Its Historical Context” held at the University of Notre Dame, where he […]
Mr Khamenei I heard your speech on 4 June 2010. It was an error-strewn oration. It ebbed and flowed between slips of the tongue and slips of the mind. It testified to flagging oratory. Our accomplished sermonizer, who had surpassed all others in deftness of speech in the thirty years since the revolution, seemed […]
The ninth annual Building Bridges Seminar, which was convened by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and brought together 30 prominent Christian and Muslim scholars, concluded on May 28 at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. The theme of the seminar was “Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives.” On the first day of the seminar, public lectures […]
With greetings to the distinguished scholars and elders of religious learning. I would like, if I may, to address a few words to you. The anniversary of the Green Movement and the people’s Judgement Day is approaching, and the people have growing expectations of righteous clerics. The movement’s prisoners and martyrs have a message […]
EVENT: Great Issues Forum: The Rise of Intellectual Reform in the Islamic World DATE: 4/20/2010 TIME: 7:00 PM— 8:30 PM REGISTRATION: ADDRESS: 365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan PHONE: 212-817-8215 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 212-817-8215 end_of_the_skype_highlighting BUILDING NUMBER: Graduate Center ROOM NUMBER: Proshansky Auditorium PRIMARY EVENT SPONSOR: Public Programs WEB ADDRESS: Event Web Page SUMMARY: A panel will discuss intellectual reform in the Islamic World. […]
Professors from Duke University, Harvard Divinity School and the University of Tehran discuss the pressure many reformers face in Islamic countries.
Propos recueillis par Marie-Claude Decamps et Gilles Paris Depuis la réélection contestée du président Mahmoud Ahmadinejad en juin 2009, les manifestations se sont succédé en Iran en dépit d’une forte répression. Prérévolution ? Contestation des dérives du gouvernement ? Que se passe-t-il vraiment dans la République islamique ? Ce qui se passe en Iran ? […]
