Professeur de sociologie des religions à l’Université catholique de Lille, Leïla Babès est l’auteur de trois ouvrages sur l’islam. Dans son dernier livre, intitulé « L’islam intérieur » (Ed. Al Bouraq, Beyrouth, 2000), elle s’adresse à tous ceux, musulmans ou non, qui s’interrogent sur la relation entre la spiritualité et la loi, sur l’évolution […].
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The Rise and Fall of Political Islam
Porsesh : What is your interpretation of concepts such as Islamic fundamentalism and political Islam ? What is the difference between the two ? Mansoor Hekmat : I do not use the expression Islamic fundamentalism because I believe it is a calculated Right wing interpretation, which deliberately presents a misleading image of contemporary Islam and Islamic […].
Fundamentalism and Modernism in the Contemporary Iranian Islam
Summary: `Islamic fundamentalism’ and `Islamic modernism’ are questions that Hojjatoleslam Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari has discussed in a lecture delivered at the University of Sorbonne in France in February 26, 1997. Text: In this article we will try to answer the following questions: a. What is Islamic fundamentalism? b. What is Islamic modernism? c. Wh […].
Islamists in Postmodern Times
Why are the postmodern times in which we are living important and what isso different about them. In general, every generation that lives assumes itis unique and is different from the generation that came before it. So ifwe are going to claim that we are living in a time which is different fromother times we have to justify that to some extent. Why are t […].
The democrat [Abdolkarim Soroush].
IF IRAN’S DEMOCRATIC REFORM movement has a house intellectual, it’s Abdolkarim Soroush. IF IRAN’S DEMOCRATIC REFORM movement has a house intellectual, it’s Abdolkarim Soroush. A small, soft-spoken philosopher with fiercely expressive eyebrows, Soroush specializes in mysticism, Sufi poetry, Islamic theology, chemistry, pharmacology, and the philosophy of […].
Abdolkarim Soroush and Islamic liberation theology.
Abdolkarim Soroush has emerged as the foremost Iranian and Islamic political philosopher and theologian. His sprawling intellectual project, aimed at reconciling reason and faith, spiritual authority and political liberty, ranges authoritatively over comparative religion, social science, and theology. However, it is only by understanding the local context […].
Islam Through Western Eyes
The media have become obsessed with something called “Islam,” which in their voguish lexicon has acquired only two meanings, both of them unacceptable and impoverishing. The media have become obsessed with something called “Islam,” which in their voguish lexicon has acquired only two meanings, both of them unacceptable and impoverishing. On the one hand, […].
Reason and revelation.
“Reason defines truth, justice, public interest, and humanity”. From chapter entitled “The Idea of Democratic Religious Government” in Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush (Oxford University Press, 2000), edited by Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri. Also see editors’ introduction. Modern science explains the world […].
Islamic Democracy and Islamic Governance.
A summary of remarks by Abdolkarim Soroush and Charles Butterworth at The Middle East Institute, November 21, 2000 On November 21, MEI gathered two scholars, the Iranian thinker Abdolkarim Soroush, visiting professor at Harvard University, and Charles Butterworth, Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, for a discussion on “Islamic […].
Types of Religiosity.
Identical words often misinform Believer and unbeliever seem identical in form Take words alone and many a feud follows Once meaning enters, calm follows Errors of judgement often arise from the fact that a single term can carry multiple meanings or a single meaning can go under different names. Reaching uniform judgements about those multiple meaning […].
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 Clash of Ignorance.
Samuel Huntington’s article “The Clash of Civilizations?” appeared in the Summer 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs, where it immediately attracted a surprising amount of attention and reaction. Samuel Huntington’s article “The Clash of Civilizations?” appeared in the Summer 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs, where it immediately attracted a surprising amount of […].
Le choc de l’ignorance.
L’article de Samuel Huntington, paru dans la livraison du printemps 1993 de la revue Foreign Affairs sous le titre “Le choc des civilisations”, a immédiatement concentré l’attention et suscité une surprenante vague de réactions. L’article de Samuel Huntington, paru dans la livraison du printemps 1993 de la revue Foreign Affairs sous le titre “Le choc des […].
A window on the world.
Western scholars helped justify the war in Iraq, says Edward Said, with their orientalist ideas about the ’Arab mind’. Twenty-five years after the publication of his post-colonial classic, the author of Orientalism argues that humanist understanding is now more urgently required than ever before. Nine years ago I wrote an afterword for Orientalism which, […].
Ma rencontre avec Jean-Paul Sartre.
Après avoir été le plus célèbre des intellectuels, Jean-Paul Sartre avait quasiment disparu, jusqu’à ces derniers temps. Peu après sa mort, en 1980, on dénonçait déjà son aveuglement face au goulag soviétique, et on tournait même en dérision l’optimisme, le volontarisme, l’énergie pure érigée en but de son existentialisme humaniste.
« Le monde musulman face à une crise culturelle »
Dans cet entretien riche en observations et réflexions, Olivier Roy évoque la genèse et l’évolution de sa recherche et de ses analyses sur les recompositions de l’islam contemporain. Et l’auteur de L’Islam mondialisé nous explique pourquoi, bien plus qu’une confrontation Islam-Occident, c’est une crise de la culture au sein du monde musulman qui se trouve […].
Tariq Ramadan, mythologie de la Umma et résistance culturelle*.
Tariq Ramadan suscite depuis le 11 septembre une farouche hostilité qui ne s’embarrasse plus des formalismes de la critique. Droite, gauche, tous courants confondus, se retrouvent pour voir en lui un personnage démoniaque, expert en communication et en double-langage. Tariq Ramadan suscite depuis le 11 septembre une farouche hostilité qui ne s’embarrasse […].
Peut-on réformer l’islam de l’intérieur ?
A propos de Shahrour Mohamed : Dirassat Islamiya Mu’açira Fi ad-Dawla wa al-Mujtama’ (Etudes islamiques contemporaines sur l’État et la société) Damas : Al-Ahali, 1994. Parmi les rares chercheurs modernes qui se sont directement intéressés au texte coranique, le syrien Mohamed Shahrour a tenté dans son dernier ouvrage de proposer une lecture qui se veu […].
