When we come to experiential religiosity, we step from the domain of separation into the domain of union. The previous types of religiosity can be described as religiosities of distance, for the first was physical and practical and the second mental and reflective. The first was based on instrumental rationality and the second on theoretical rationality.
Text in Context. Abdolkarim Soroush.
The science of nature is a human endeavor to understand the nature, and the science of religion is a human endeavor to understand religion. All understanding assumes suppositions and entails “categorization,” that is subsuming the particular under universal categories and concepts. Understanding religion is no exception. It is preceded by certain assumpti […].
The Responsibilities of the Muslim Intellectual in the 21st Century
By Farish A. Noor Professor Abdolkarim Soroush is an Iranian philosopher and social scientist who is currently based at the Institute for Epistemological Research in Tehran, Iran. A well-known scholar and Islamist intellectual in Iran and abroad, his writings have been widely disseminated both in print and via the Internet. In Iran, he is seen as an advo […].
Les responsabilités de l’intellectuel musulman au 21è siècle
L’Institut pour l’Etude de l’Islam dans le Monde Moderne ( ISIM ) de Leiden a récemment organisé un colloque de trois jours, comportant une série de séminaires, autour du thème : ” Les intellectuels musulmans et les défis du monde contemporain “. Le Dr Farish Noor, qui était à cette rencontre, a réussi à interviewer pour Etudes-Musulmanes certains des part […].
L’inévitable filtre de l’interprétation.
Abdul-Karim Soroush, est un penseur-philosophe iranien dont les idées novatrices sur la réforme religieuse lui assureront une place parmi les réformateurs musulmans les plus éminents du siècle présent. Licencié en pharmaçologie, de l’université de Téhéran et docteur en histoire de la philosophie des sciences, de l’université de Londres, Dr Soroush a surpri […].
