AbdolKarim Soroush :: عبدالكريم سروش

From the brains behind Iran’s Green Revolution to the economic Cassandra who actually did have a crystal ball, they had the big ideas that shaped our world in 2009. Read on to see the 100 minds that mattered most in the year that was.   45. Abdolkarim Soroush for pitting his theological might against Iran’s […]

Imam Ali Conference at Hartford Seminary This program took place on Sunday October 17th, 2009 from 9 AM to 5:45PM  

The following is by an Iran expert who wishes to remain anonymous. Grave, soft-spoken, the exiled Iranian religious scholar Abdolkarim Soroush is a living record of the Iranian revolution. As a fanatical young supporter of Ayatollah Khomeini, he helped purge Iran’s universities of leftists and secularists in the early 1980s. Later, as a founder and […]

The bloody wedding has ended and the fraudulent groom has left the bridal chamber. The ballot boxes tremble and ogres dance in the dark. The dead, in their white shrouds, stand and watch, and the prisoners clap with severed hands. And, with a mixture of rage and hatred, the people of the world see off […]

Abbas Milani What we are witnessing right now in the streets of Tehran is, first and foremost, a political battle for the future of the Iranian state. But closely linked to this political fight is also an old theological dispute about the nature of Shiism–a dispute that has been roiling Iran for more than a […]

Iranian writer and scholar Adbdolkarim Soroush has thrown his support behind the reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi. Soroush, a former philosophy professor at Tehran University who last year was a visiting fellow and scholar in residence with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, says that his views have not changed since four years […]

Report by:  Serajeddin Mirdamadi   On the initiative of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and with the cooperation of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), a three-day conference on “Shi’ism Today” opened at the CERI-Science Po centre in Paris on Monday 27 April. Dr Abdulkarim Soroush and Professor Mohammad Mojtahed-Shabestari […]