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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By: Michel Hoebink Muhammad is the creator of the Koran. That is what well-known Iranian reformer Abdolkarim Soroush says in his book The Expansion of the Prophetic Experience that will be published early next year. With this view, Soroush goes further than some of the most radical Muslim reformers. In […]
By Michiel Leezenberg Michiel Leezenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, and Sabbatical Fellow at ISIM. Just prior to Soroush’s departure from the Netherlands, Michiel Leezenberg talked with him about the philosophical origins and dimensions of modernity in the Islamic world. Soroush opened with some of his impressions of the […]
An interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By Matin Ghaffarian Q. In late May, you took part in a seminar on Islam and democracy. Who were the other participants and what were the issues discussed? A. In the seminar, four people were due to have engaged in a debate. Mr. Tariq Ramadan, Mr. Sadik Jalal Al-Azm, Mr. […]
An interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By Matin Ghaffarian Maybe this, too, is one of the problems of being famous. Among the many people who, wittingly or unwittingly, became involved in the cultural revolution 28 years ago, one was Dr. Soroush. But whenever the cultural revolution is mentioned, his name appears at the top of the […]
An interview with Abdulkarim Soroush By Ali Asghar Seyyedabadi Although, on the last occasion he delivered a talk in Iran, Abdulkarim Soroush spoke at Abdollah Nuri’s house about the work of religious intellectuals and defended their record, we chose to focus on a different subject in this interview, a subject that Dr Soroush has addressed […]
