Abdolkarim soroush biography of mahatma gandhi

 Abdulkarim Soroush (pseud. of Hossein Dabbagh) was born in Tehran in After being trained in Tehran as a pharmacologist and philosopher he left for the United Kingdom where he studied history and philosophy of science, particularly the philosophy of Popper and Kuhn. During the months preceding the Islamitic Revolution of Iran Soroush had a large share in the gatherings of young muslims, opponents of the Shah's regime, that took place in the London imam-barah.

His book, Dialectical Antagonism, a compilation of his lectures delivered in the imam-barah, was published in Iran.

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When the revolution began, in , Soroush returned to Iran. In the spring of Soroush was appointed member of the Council for the Cultural Revolution, established by Ayatollah Khomeini. In he left this council for good and never accepted any governmental offices after that. Among the subjects he taught in Tehran University and elsewhere the Islamic mysticism, especially Rumi's Mathnawi, was a major one.

Soroush became member of Iran's Academy of Sciences in However, he became gradually more critical of the political role played by the Iranian clergy and after a few years distanced himself from this role.

Abdolkarim soroush biography of mahatma gandhi Philosophers by century CE. Among the subjects he taught in Tehran University and elsewhere the Islamic mysticism, especially Rumi's Mathnawi, was a major one. When the revolution began, in , Soroush returned to Iran. The other is to equip religion with extra-religious means and values, chiefly in reconciling reason and revelation.

As a result he not only became subject to harassment and censorship, but also lost his job and security and was forced to leave the country for England and Canada in

In he and a number of his closest friends founded a monthly magazine Kiyan which soon became the most visible forum ever for religious intellectualism.

In this magazine he published his most controversial articles on religious pluralism, hermeneutics, tolerance, clericalism etc. The magazine was clamped down in among many other magazines and newspapers by the direct order of the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic. About a thousand audio tapes of speeches by Soroush on various social, political, religious and literary subjects delivered all over the world are widely in circulation in Iran and elsewhere.

From the year onwards Abdulkarim Soroush has been a Visiting Professor in Harvard University teaching Islam and Democracy, Quranic Studies and Philosophy of Islamic Law.

Also a scholar in residence in Yale University he is currently teaching Islamic Political Philosophy at Princeton University. For the next academic year he will be a visiting scholar in the Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin.

Select bibliography

• Dialectical Antagonism (in Farsi), Tehran
• Philosophy of History (in Farsi), Tehran
• What is Science, what is Philosophy (in Farsi), 11th ed.

  Tehran

• The Restless Nature of the Universe (in Farsi and Turkish), reprint Tehran
• Satanic Ideology (in Farsi), 5th ed.
  Abdolkarim soroush biography of mahatma gandhi for kids Soroush's main contribution to Islamic philosophy is his interpretation of the Kantian distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge. Reception [ edit ]. Notwithstanding his deep appreciation of their endeavours, Soroush believes that his theory provides a hitherto absent but vital contribution, that is, an epistemological structure. Soroush's joining the Cultural Revolution Committee has been criticized on two sides.

  Tehran

• Knowledge and Value (in Farsi)
• Observing the Created: Lectures in Ethics and Human Sciences (in Farsi), 3rd ed. Tehran
• The Theoretical Contraction and Expansion of Religion: The Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge (in Farsi), 3rd ed. Tehran
• Lectures in the Philosophy of Social Sciences: Hermeneutics in Social Sciences (in Farsi), Tehran
• Sagaciousness, Intellectualism and Pietism (in Farsi), Tehran
• The Characteristic of the Pious: A Commentary on Imam Ali's Lecture About the Pious (in Farsi), 4th ed.

  Tehran

• The Tale of the Lords of Sagacity (in Farsi), 3rd ed. Tehran
• Wisdom and Livelihood: A Commentary on Imam Ali's Letter to Imam Hasan (in Farsi), 2nd ed. Tehran
• Sturdier than Ideology (in Farsi), Tehran
• The Evolution and Devolution of Religious Knowledge in: Kurzman, Ch. (ed.) Liberal Islam, Oxford
• Political Letters (2 volumes), (Farsi); 3rd volume in preparation
• Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam, Essential writings of Adbolkarim Soroush, translated, edited with a critical introduction by M.

  Sadri and A. Sadri, Oxford

• Intellectualism and Religious Conviction (in Farsi)
• The World we live (in Farsi and Turkish)
• The Tale of Love and Servitude (in Farsi)
• The definitive edition of Rumi's Mathnavi  (in Farsi),
• Tolerance and Governance (in Farsi),
• Straight Paths, An Essay on religious Pluralism (in Farsi),
• Expansion of Prophetic Experience (in Farsi),

The Divine Ethics (in Farsi),

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