Author: John O. Voll From Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, ed. Robert Wuthnow. 2 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1998), 383-393. Beginning as the faith of a small community of believers in Arabia in the seventh century, Islam rapidly became one of the major world religions. The core of this faith is the belief […]
PARVIZ MOREWEDGE OLIVER LEAMAN There are a number of major trends in modern Islamic philosophy. First, there is the challenge of the West to traditional Islamic philosophical and cultural principles and the desire to establish a form of thought which is distinctive. From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, Islamic philosophers have attempted to redefine Islamic philosophy; […]
Jalaei pour, H. R. The Iranian Islamic Revolution: Mass Mobilization and its Continuity during 1976-96, PhD. Dissertation, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1997 Chapter 6 The Causes of the Challenges inside the Mobilizer Core after the War 1988-96 Section 3 The Emergence of a Modern Intellectual Climate and the Change in the Ideological Scene: 1988-1996 […]
By Haleh Nazeri Lunaleh@aol.com One of the more interesting things about Dr. Soroush’slectures in New York was the different atmosphere at each venue. The lecture in Persian was standing room only, with the crowd consisting of a majority of men. There were women in attendance also, however, most were in hejab and seemed older. It […]
Asghar Schirazi, ‘Criticism from Outside’ Chapter 16, in The Constitution of Iran, I.B.Tauris, London, New York, 1997: 277-287 There is also a category of criticism which comes from Islamic reformers who, depending on tactical or other considerations, distance themselves more or less openly from the concept of velayat-efaqib. When the author of the lead article […]
The following article by Mehrzad Boroujerdi is part of his book, Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism (for more on the book see http://web.syr.edu/~mborouje/ ). Address comments to the author at Department of Political Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, or via electronic mail at mboroujerdi@maxwell.syr.edu And what work […]
Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) – Iran Quarterly Report – 24 June 1996 . . . Willing to accomodate women, the establishment has been having problems dealing with a leading religious reformer, Abdol-karim Soroush. The government is alleged to be involved in violent efforts to shut up Soroush by giving support to a new […]
Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) – Editorial 24 May 1996 Human Rights Watch is a nongovernmental organization established in 1978 to monitor and promote the observance of internationally recognized human rights in Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and among the signatories of the Helsinki accords. It is supported by contributions from private individuals […]
By Abdou Filali-Ansary Journal of Democracy 7.2 (1996) 76-80 Robin Wright and Bernard Lewis both seem to address the question of whether there is an “Islamic Reformation” going on now, and if there is, what content, direction, and influence it is likely to have. The raising of this question betokens an important shift in the […]
