One of the monthly journals, the first article of whose unwritten constitution is “distortion of facts and sanctification of violence”, has quoted me as saying that “The lack of commitment to secularism in the Iranian society has resulted in its demise and instability”. Although I am aware of my legal right to publish my denial […]
For the Flower of Freedom The following is a response by Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush, a reformist Islamic thinker, to a recent statement by Iran‘s Foreign Minister Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati. Dr. Soroush, who recently returned to Iran after attending conferences on the Middle East in Europe and the United States, rejects accusations of creating “scandal” […]
Text in Context Lecture Delivered at McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies 13th of April 1995 and published in Liberal Islam, a sourcebook, edited by Charles Kurzman, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, PP 244-251 (1) By: Abdolkarim Soroush The science of nature is a human endeavor to understand the nature, and the science […]
