{"id":689,"date":"2011-01-20T19:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T03:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doctorsoroush.com\/english\/?p=689"},"modified":"2012-10-02T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T02:18:07","slug":"shiism-in-need-of-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drsoroush.com\/en\/shiism-in-need-of-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Shi’ism in Need of Reform – A Talk by Abdolkarim Soroush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranian Student Alliance in America<\/p>\n

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Shi’ism in Need of Reform: A Talk by Dr.Abdolkarim Soroush<\/h3>\n

Lecture | January\u00a020 | 6:30-9 p.m. |\u00a0Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union<\/a>, Tilden Room<\/p>\n


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Iranian Student Alliance in America-ISAA<\/a>,\u00a0Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program (RPGP)<\/a>,Middle Eastern Studies, Center for<\/a><\/p>\n


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Iranian Student Alliance in America-ISAA
\nproudly presents:<\/p>\n

Abdolkarim Soroush is an Iranian thinker, reformer and Rumi scholar. He is a well-known figure in religious intellectual movement in Iran. Professor Soroush is currently a visiting scholar at George Washington University in Washington D.C. He was also affiliated with other prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, the Leiden based International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Some of Soroush’s honors include:<\/p>\n

* 2004 Erasmus Prize
\n* 2005 Time 100 most influential people
\n* 2008 Prospect magazine’s 7 of 100 most influential intellectuals in the world
\n* 2009 Foreign Policy magazine’s 45 of 100 world’s elite intellectuals
\n* 2010 Foreign Policy magazine’s 40 of 100 top global thinkers<\/p>\n


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isaa.berkeley@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/events.berkeley.edu\/index.php\/calendar\/sn\/RPGP.html?event_ID=38245&date=2011-01-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian Student Alliance in America   Shi’ism in Need of Reform: A Talk by Dr.Abdolkarim Soroush Lecture | January\u00a020 | 6:30-9 p.m. |\u00a0Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Tilden Room Speaker\/Performer:\u00a0Abdolkarim Soroush Sponsors:\u00a0Iranian Student Alliance in America-ISAA,\u00a0Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program (RPGP),Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Iranian Student Alliance in America-ISAA proudly presents: Abdolkarim Soroush […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drsoroush.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drsoroush.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drsoroush.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drsoroush.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drsoroush.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drsoroush.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drsoroush.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drsoroush.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drsoroush.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}