Archives for the ‘ Works On Soroush ’ Category

Religious Intellectuals and the Woman Question

By • Dec 1st, 2001 • Category: Works On Soroush


Zanan: Trials and Successes of a Feminist Magazine in Iran

By • Oct 3rd, 2001 • Category: Works On Soroush


Gender of Democracy: The Encounter between Feminism and Reformism in Contemporary Iran

By • Oct 1st, 2001 • Category: Works On Soroush


Sacral Defense of Secularism: The Political Theologies of Soroush, Shabestari, and Kadivar

By • Oct 1st, 2001 • Category: Works On Soroush


The Construction of Gender in Islamic Legal Thought and Strategies for Reform

By • Jun 10th, 2001 • Category: Works On Soroush


Book Review by Mehrzad Boroujerdi

By • Jun 1st, 2001 • Category: Works On Soroush

Copyright Middle East Institute Summer 2001 Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush, by Abdolkarim Soroush. Translated, edited, and with a critical introduction by Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 225 pages. Bibl. to 229. Index to 236. Over the last two decades, Abdolkarim Soroush has […]



Islam and Democracy: Reflections on Abdolkarim Soroush

By • Apr 7th, 2001 • Category: Works On Soroush

Fred Dallmayr   (CSID 2001 Proceedingds) University of Notre Dame Fred.R.Dallmayr.1@nd.edu Islam demands loyalty to God, not to thrones. (Mohammad Iqbal) In his Political and Social Essays, Paul Ricoeur addresses forthrightly the situation of the religious believer in the modern world, especially in modern secular society. Quoting from scripture (Matthew 5, 13), he insists that believers […]



2001 World Press Freedom Review!

By • Jan 2nd, 2001 • Category: Works On Soroush

Over the last few years, the press has become the main battlefield for political struggle in Iran, and journalists along with press freedom have become the main victims. During the course of 2001, Iran became the country with the largest number of imprisoned journalists in the world, with a high of 27 incarcerated media workers. […]



Critics Within: Islamic Scholars’ Protests Against the Islamic State in Iran

By • Jan 1st, 2001 • Category: Works On Soroush


The Paradoxes of Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran

By • Jan 1st, 2001 • Category: Works On Soroush

Published in Iran at the Crossroads, edited by John L. Esposito and R. K. Ramazani (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 13-27. Mehrzad Boroujerdi  The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.  To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.  When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. Oscar Wilde, The Picture […]