AbdolKarim Soroush :: عبدالكريم سروش

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Interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By: Bizhan Mumivand and Hossein Sokhanvar Q.  To begin with, could you please tell us a bit about what you’ve been doing in terms of research and academic activities while you’ve been away from Iran?   A.  I’ve been away from Iran for two and a half years.  During the first […]

(Forms and Formlessness 5 ) This is the published version of the last of a five-part series of talks given by Dr Soroush under the general heading “Surat va bi-Surati” (Forms and Formlessness). This fifth part was published in the November-December 2001 edition of the now-banned journal Aftab.  It also includes the question and answer […]

Interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By Nooshabeh Amiri Paris, April 2009 Q.  It seems that, these days, the West is very interested in the movement that you call “religious modernism”.  Is that right?  And why? A.  Yes, that’s right.  But, unfortunately, the West’s interest in the question of Islam and religious modernism doesn’t have a very […]

by: Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabar For more than two decades, Abdulkarim Soroush has been Iran’s leading public intellectual. Deeply versed in Islamic theology and mysticism, he was chosen by Ayatollah Khomeini to “Islamicize” Iran’s universities, only to eventually turn against the theocratic state. He paid a price for his dissidence. Vigilantes and other government-supported elements disrupted […]

Years ago, when, in my courses on ethics, I was explaining Aristotle’s theory of moderation and speaking about the vice of going to one extreme or the other and the virtue of “the just mean” – in those same years, I also embarked on a serious study of Mowlana Jalaleddin Rumi’s Masnavi and entrusted my […]

I have the impression that Morad Farhadpour doesn’t attach as much importance to “thoughts” as to peripheral issues. Let me put it more plainly: He doesn’t have the courage to take on thoughts or the competence for learned criticism. And he wraps this lack of courage and competence in a veneer of tirades about motives, […]

An interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By:  Reza Khojasteh-Rahimi Q. Let us begin our interview with your initial acquaintance with Popper. After you married, you went to Britain and then to the University of London and Chelsea College. There, you studied chemistry and the philosophy of science. Is this when you first became acquainted with Popper […]

Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform (International Library of Iranian Studies) [Paperback] Source: http://www.amazon.com/Islam-Dissent-Postrevolutionary-Iran-Abdolkarim/dp/1845118804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219508445&sr=8-1

Essays on Historicity, Contingency and Plurality in Religion Abdulkarim Soroush Translated by Nilou Mobasser Edited with Analytical Introduction by Forough Jahanbakhsh Abdulkarim Soroush is known primarily for his epistemological/hermeneutical theory, the “Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge,” and its application to Islamic political theory and religious pluralism. While his Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam […]