Shafiq soroush biography books

Publications In English

Essential Writing of Abdolkarim Soroush, Translated, Edited and with a critical Introduction by Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri Published by Oxford University Press, 236p

The paper back edition was published in January 2002

From the Publisher
Abdolkarim Soroush has emerged as one of the leading moderate revisionist thinkers of the Muslim world.

He and his contemporaries in other Muslim 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. Presenting eleven of his essays, this volume makes Soroush's thought readily available in English for the first time.

The essays set forth his views on such matters as the freedom of Muslims to interpret the Qur'an, the inevitability of change in religion, the necessity of freedom of belief, and the compatib