Research Catalog

Title

Reason, freedom, & democracy in Islam : Essential writings of ʻAbdolkarim Soroush / translated, edited, and with a critical introduction by Mahmoud Sadri, Ahmad Sadri.

Author

Surūsh, ʻAbd al-Karīm.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Sadri, Mahmoud.

Description

xix, 236 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "In recent years 'Abdolkarim Soroush has emerged as one of the leading revisionist thinkers of the Moslem world. Supporters and critics alike have called him the Martin Luther of Islam - a man whose ideas on religion and democracy could bridge the chasm between Moslem societies and the rest of the world.
• Soroush and his contemporaries in other Moslem countries are shaping what may become Islam's equivalent of the Christian Reformation: a period of questioning traditional practices and beliefs and, ultimately, of upheaval.".
• "This book features eleven of Soroush's essays translated into English for the first time, a new critical introduction by the editors, and an original interview that reveals the intellectual biography of Soroush. Offering a timely corrective to the common view of Islam as monolithically reactionary, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the Middle East and Islam and politics both here and abroad."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Reason, freedom, and democracy in Islam

Subjects

• Islam and reason
• Democracy > Religious aspects > Islam
• Liberty > Religious aspects > Islam
• Islam and state

Note

• Translated from Persian.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-229) and index.

Contents

1. Intellectual Autobiography: An Interview -- 2. Islamic Revival and Reform: Theological Approaches -- 3. Life and Virtue: The Relationship between Socioeconomic Development and Ethics -- 4. The Sense and Essence of Secularism -- 5. Doctrine and Justification -- 6. Reason and Freedom -- 7. The Ethics of the Gods -- 8. The Idea of Democratic Religious Government -- 9. Tolerance and Governance: A Discourse on Religion and Democracy -- 10. The Three Cultures -- 11. What the University Expects from the Hawzeh -- 12. Let Us Learn from History.

ISBN

• 0195128125 (alk. paper)
• 0195158202 (pbk.)

LCCN

98038231

OCLC

• 39614815
• ocm39614815
• SCSB-3885218

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries