Abdolkarim Soroush, born in 1945, aka Hossein Dabbagh, is considered one of Iran’s most prominent intellectuals. He abandoned ...

Abdolkarim Soroush, a prominent thinker and Islamic scholar now living in the United States, has blasted Iranian officials over what he describes as the physical and psychological torture of his ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Iranian scholar Abdolkarim Soroush presented the first part of a series of lectures on Iranian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi on Monday. The event kicked off a week of talks from Soroush on the subject, ...

Public intellectuals can be agents of democratisation linking academic scholarly discourses to the wider public sphere, mobilising civil society with the intellectual tools for political and social ...

The internal crisis in the Muslim world today, both in Muslim-majority states and in the Muslim communities in the West, is grave and complex. In this context, AbdolKarim Soroush’s views and analysis ...

Iranian scholar and teacher Abdolkarim Soroush emphasized the distinction between an "Islam of ideas" and an "Islam of identity" and the ongoing struggle to find a balance between the two during the ...

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 ...