By: Robin Wright Robin Wright is global-affairs correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and former Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times of London. Her books include Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam (1985) and In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade (1990). Journal of Democracy 7.2 (1996) 64-75 Of all the challenges […]
By: Valla Vakili Council on Foreign Relations Executive Summary Abdolkarim Soroush is a leading Iranian religious intellectual with highly controversial ideas on religion and politics. This paper and the Muslim Politics Program were made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation. The main points of his political thought, discussed at greater length in […]
A Research Program for Islamic Revivalism (An Iranian Perspective) Review Draft— February 1995 by: Hossein Kamali The following article by Hossein Kamaly is on the ideas of Iranian thinker Abdolkarim Soroush on religious and scientific knowledge. Address comments to the author at Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY 10003, or preferably via electronic […]
Foreign Policy September 22, 1994 By: Edward G. Shirley The growing volume of discussion in Iran about widespread public anomie, particularly in conservative clerical circles, reveals the urgent fear that the moral fiber of Iranian society is under severe stress. The allure of the ever-present, ever-corrupting West is usually cited as the primary culprit in […]
