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Archive for Abdolkarim Soroush

Abdolkarim Soroush (عبدالكريم سروش) is a leading Iranian thinker, philosopher, reformer and Rumi scholar. He is a well-known figure in religious intellectual movement in Iran.

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From Islam as an Identity to Secular Politics


A religious intellectual is more concerned with religious truths than with religion as an identity. The Islam of religious intellectuals is the Islam of truths and the question of an identity is peripheral to this. A religious intellectual must, first and foremost, concern himself with faith, religious experience, differing religious readings and creating [...].

22Oct2006 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Whether by the Fire of Freedom or by the Fire of Zeal


It seems that today the right to freedom of expression has turned into a duty to defile and desecrate Muhammad’s name. It would be impossible to vandalize freedom more viciously than this. Muslims detect a whiff of vilification and conspiracy, and see it as an act of hostility. They believe that a collusion and conjunction between secularism and fundamen [...].

22Feb2006 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Democracy, Justice, Fundamentalism and Religious Intellectualism


An interview with Abdulkarim Soroush* by Ali Asghar Seyyedabadi Q. Let’s start the discussion with the [June 2005] presidential elections if you don’t mind. The outcome can be linked on two counts to issues of interest to you: one is the question of justice, since some people believe that the government that emerged from the elections is a product of the [...].

13Jan2006 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Intellectual Autobiography.


Interview with Abdolkarim Soroush. Sadri: I would like to ask you for an account of your intellectual development. I am certainly interested in whether you distinguish any turning points, watersheds, or distinct periods in the evolution of your thought. Soroush: In the name of God the compassionate, the merciful, thank you for giving me this opportunity [...].

8Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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The Responsibilities of the Muslim intellectual in the 21st Century.


Professor Abdolkarim Soroush is an Iranian philosopher and social scientist who is currently based at the Institute for Epistemological Research in Tehran, Iran. A well-known scholar and Islamist intellectual in Iran and abroad, his writings have been widely disseminated both in print and via the Internet. In Iran, he is seen as an advocate of institutiona [...].

8Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Intellectuals: The Powerless Wielders of Power - 3 -


Interview with Abdolkarim Soroush. By SA’ID RA’I for the Iranian Labour News Agency,January 2004. Translated by Nilou Mobasser. Intellectuals: The Powerless Wielders of Power. (page 3 of 3) SA’ID RA’I: In a speech you made ten years ago, under the title Shariati and the Theoretical Reconstruction of Religion, you said: « Some of our clerics have been [...].

8Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Intellectuals: The Powerless Wielders of Power - 2 -


Interview with Abdolkarim Soroush. By SA’ID RA’I for the Iranian Labour News Agency,January 2004. Translated by Nilou Mobasser. Intellectuals: The Powerless Wielders of Power. (page 2 of 3) SA’ID RA’I: One of the criticisms directed by the Frankfurt School at positivists such as Popper is that (according to them) positivist science seeks to justify an [...].

8Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Intellectuals: The Powerless Wielders of Power - 1 -


Interview with Abdolkarim Soroush. By SA’ID RA’I for the Iranian Labour News Agency,January 2004. Translated by Nilou Mobasser. In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful SA’ID RA’I : One of the issues that has exercised your mind in recent years has been the relationship between knowledge and power, and especially the relationship between the [...].

8Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Travel.


Interview with Abdolkarim Soroush. April 1997 - Following his return to UK from the United States and shortly before he left London for Tehran to end a twelve-month absence from the country, Dr Soroush spoke to SERAJ in an exclusive interview. Here is a summarised translation of this conversation. Dr. Soroush, over the last few months, you have travelle [...].

7Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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A Generation in the Process of Development.


Summary: Ehsan Naraqi, the advisor to the former UNESCO director-general Federico Mayor, believes that although Iran has ranked second among the Muslim nations in terms of publication, it has hit the bottom of the list in terms of international recognition. It has led to American universities have dropped Iranology from their curriculum despite the West’s [...].

7Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Ethics and Ethical Critiques.


Interview with Abdolkarim Soroush. Q: Dr Soroush, you have been away from Iran for some time and we have been deprived. The fact of the matter is, when we look at your works over the past one or two years, we see a common denominator. Ethics of the Gods is a collection of your articles that was published in 2001. Articles such as “Civil Society, Ethical [...].

7Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Democracy and Rationality.


Interview with Abdolkarim Soroush. Q: Dr Soroush! I’d like us to discuss the question of rationality. Would you be so kind as to begin by pointing out the different interpretations that there are of rationality and also mentioning your own chosen interpretation, so that we can go on from there? A: Let me first say that I don’t know what you mean by reas [...].

7Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Back to Iran.


I don’t like posting full articles or interviews unless that their reading is highly significant to Iranians and to the lay observer of Iranian affairs. That being said this is an interview published in the New Scientist concerning Soroush’s decision to return to Iran after a six year hiatus. For those of you who don’t know much about Soroush, he’s conside [...].

7Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Contraction and Expansion of Women’s Rights


Q. New religious thinking in our society has remained consistently silent on women’s issues. There may be a number of reasons for this silence : it may be that some of the thinkers involved feel that there’s no such thing as women-specific issues ; or that women’s problems will be solved when the fundamental problems of society are solved and that the more [...].

2Feb2005 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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