Dr. Abdulkarim Soroush, one of the world’s most prominent Islamic scholars, will give a presentation entitled “Reforming Islamic Societies: Prospects and Pitfalls” at the College of Arts and Sciences Public Affairs Forum, also sponsored by TWU’s Global Connections Initiative. Named by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2005, Dr. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei faces a growing barrage of opposition. Now prominent intellectuals are adding their voices to the fray BACK in the late 1970s, as Iran approached revolution and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi oscillated between conciliation and brutal repression, the more daring of his subjects peppered him with criticism and advice. The open letters he […]
Groups protesting against the current regime reveal what they want a new Iranian government to look like Iran’s so-called green movement is not yet a counterrevolution, but recent developments make clear it is heading in that direction. Seven months after the uprising began, an opposition manifesto is finally taking shape, and its sweeping demands would […]
Risking expulsion and possible arrest, 88 professors at Tehran University signed a letter on Monday calling on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme religious leader, to end the use of violence against protesters, saying it was a sign of the government’s weakness. “Nighttime attacks on defenseless student dormitories and daytime assaults on students at university […]
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 […]
