An interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By: Matin Ghaffarian Q. Dr Soroush, we’ve been hearing for some time that you’re busy studying the ideas and works of the Mu’tazilites. I wanted to ask you about the ins and outs of this. A. I started thinking about this project a long time ago – even before I […]
An interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By: Reza Khojasteh-Rahimi Q. You were one of the first people, after Dr Shariati’s death, to arrive at the house where he was staying and to see his lifeless face before he was ultimately laid to rest. It seems that you’d had an appointment to see him a day later […]
Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) and the InterAction Council (IAC) announced today they will launch a new book, Bridging the Divide: Religious Dialogue and Universal Ethics at the IAC’s 26th Annual Plenary Meeting in Sweden next week. “Believing that religious misunderstanding has led to many conflicts, the IAC has made establishing multifaith […]
In our last issue, we named the world’s top 100 public intellectuals and asked readers to vote for those they deem most deserving of the top honors. Now, 500,000 votes later, we reveal the results of the reader poll. Plus, members of the Top 100 name the intellectuals they believe should have made the list. […]
by: Sarah Flanagan Abdolkarim Soroush spoke to a packed Hindle auditorium about his philosophy on democracy’s place in the Islamic world on Monday April 7. Wheaton joins institutions such as Harvard and Princeton and Georgetown in inviting Soroush to share his intellectual insight on the compatibility between democracy and Islamic society. “I haven’t seen […]
Part I of discussion between Hojjat ol‑Eslam Mohsen Kadivar and Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush {The question of pluralism is one of the discussions that has found its way in recent years into religious studies fields in our country and has recently prompted various arguments. SALAM newspaper, in connection with expanding the foundations of Islamic thought and […]
Interview with Abdulkarim Soroush by Kargozaran newspaper Q. Some newspapers and websites have been saying recently that Dr Soroush has officially denied that the Koran was revealed by God and has said that it is the earthly word of Muhammad. Is this true? A. Maybe they’re joking or, God forbid, they have political or personal […]
On the Pretext of Religious Intellectualism It would appear that religious intellectualism has turned into a weight, otherwise they wouldn’t be sending their henchmen into the ring to knock it down. Recently, one of the knockers wrote a disquisition in which he likened religious intellectualism to three things in order to prove its impossibility to […]
An interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By: Reza Khojasteh-Rahimi Q. I’d like to begin by asking you about the background to the materialization of Kiyan as a journal and as a circle of people. How did you become associated with this circle and even become its nucleus? A. It’s really nice to have religious intellectuals’ background […]
