Abdolkarim Soroush

Abdulkarim Soroush (Persian عبدالكريم سروش, DMG ʿ Abdo l - Karīm sorus; born 1945 in Tehran ) or ʿ Abdulkarīm Soroush is an Iranian philosopher. His real name is Hossein Haj Farajullāh Dabbagh.

Curriculum vitae

Soroush spent his school years in Tehran known private school Alawi, which was founded by religious businessmen in life. The teachers at this school were familiar with modern science. They were also trained religiously, so that they could arrange the classroom as well with the religious and modern sciences. Soroush thereby received a traditional Islamic education with the addition of the new sciences.

Soroush studied pharmacy in Iran. Later he went to London, where he deepened his studies in analytical chemistry and graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry. He also holds in the disciplines of history and philosophy of a degree from the University of Chelsea, where he lived for five and a half years. During this time, Soroush was actively involved in political movements of Iranian students who had the aim of overthrowing the Shah.

Soroush made ​​speeches in student political circles, which were recorded in writing and published as books. One of these books was Falsafeye Tarikh to German philosophy of history, which was known in Iran and considered response to Marxist positions. In a live broadcast on Iranian television, he argued against the ideologues of the Marxist Tudeh Party Ehsan Tabari and Nuruddin Kiyanuri.

In London, he wrote another book entitled Nahadi -i Jahan Na Arami to German The Dynamic Nature of the Universe. This book provides two important components of Islam, namely Tawhid and Ma'ad, which is based on the idea of Mullah Sadra. This book was read by leading Iranian clerics, including the later revolutionary leader Khomeini, Ayatollah Ayatollah Morteza Tabatabi and Motahhari. Khomeini rated this book as a model and as an asset for Islam.

Soroush is currently working as a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin.

Philosophical thinking

His view of Islamic philosophy based on the idea that one should distinguish between religion as divine revelation and the interpretation of religion or religious knowledge, which is linked to socio- historical factors. Soroush is primarily active in the philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, in the philosophical system of Rumi and comparative philosophy.

Religion is, according to Soroush from an epistemological and historical point of view different from the understanding of religion.

Religion itself is the Word of God, immutable, eternal and holy.

The understanding of religion is a human endeavor, as trying eg to understand nature. Knowledge about religion, acquired by a human, are not sacred.

Knowledge about religion may at any time be like any other knowledge in life replaceable. There is not a static concept in the knowledge of the religion.

Religious knowledge is floating in a river, is relative and time-bound.

Soroush is considered eloquent intellectuals and advocates a liberal interpretation of the Quran and the secular- pluralist positions. He wrote for the now illegal, iranian journal Kiyan (Eng. horizon), in the beginning of the 1990s, the relationship between Islam and modernity was discussed. Soroush taught, inter alia, 2002 Harvard .. Annemarie Schimmel, Nestorin the German Islam Science and Peace prize winner of the German Book Trade in 1995 had been used in a written Farsi letter on 21 August 1997 at the Iranian President Khatami for Soroush and the now exiled writer Faraj Sarkohi.

Awards

  • 2004 award of the Erasmus Prize

Famous Quotes

In Iran we have the Persian culture, the religion of Islam and an incessant encounter with modernity.

Religion is just, but justice is not a religion and can not be a religion.

Selected Works

Persian

  • Dialectical Antagonism ( in Persian ), Tehran, 1978
  • Philosophy of History ( in Persian ), Tehran 1978
  • What is science, what is Philosophy ( in Persian ), 11th ed Tehran 1992
  • The Restless Nature of the Universe ( in Persian and Turkish), reprint Tehran 1980
  • Satanic Ideology ( in Persian ), 5th ed Tehran 1994
  • Knowledge and Value ( in Persian )
  • Observing the Created: Lectures in Ethics and Human Sciences ( in Persian ), 3rd ed Tehran 1994
  • The Theoretical Contraction and Expansion of Religion: The Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge ( in Persian ), 3rd ed Tehran 1994
  • Lectures in the Philosophy of Social Sciences: Hermeneutics in Social Sciences ( in Persian ), Tehran 1995
  • Sagaciousness, intellectualism and Pietism ( in Persian ), Tehran 1991
  • The Characteristic of the Pious: A Commentary on Imam Ali 's Lecture About the Pious ( in Persian ), 4th ed Tehran 1996
  • The Tale of the Lords of Sagacity ( in Persian ), 3rd ed Tehran 1996
  • Wisdom and Livelihood: A Commentary on Imam Ali's Letter to Imam Hasan ( in Persian ), 2nd ed Tehran 1994
  • Stubbornness than Ideology Dier ( in Persian ), Tehran 1994
  • Political Letters ( 2 volumes ), 1999 ( in Persian )
  • Intellectualism and Religious Conviction ( in Persian )
  • The World we live ( in Persian and Turkish)
  • The Tale of Love and Servitude ( in Persian )
  • The definitive edition of Rumi 's Mathnavi ( in Persian ), 1996
  • Tolerance and Governance ( in Persian ), 1997
  • Straight Paths, An Essay on religious Pluralism ( in Persian ), 1998
  • Expansion of Prophetic Experience ( in Persian ), 1999

Translations

  • The Evolution and Devolution of Religious Knowledge, in: Charles Kurzman ( ed.) Liberal Islam. A Sourcebook, Oxford 1998, 244-251.
  • Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam. Essential writings of Adbolkarim Soroush (translated, supplemented by a critical introduction by M. Sadri and A. Sadri ), Oxford 2000.
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