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Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush

Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush

Soroush, Abdolkarim
Sadri, Mahmoud
Sadri, Mahmoud

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PhilosophyIslam

ISBN10: 0195158202
ISBN13: 9780195158205
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 10 2002
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
Abdolkarim Soroush has emerged as one of the leading moderate revisionist thinkers of the Muslim world. He and his contemporaries in other Muslim countries are shaping what may become Islam's equivalent of the Christian Reformation: a period of questioning traditional practices and beliefs and, ultimately, of upheaval. Presenting eleven of his essays, this volume makes Soroush's thought readily available in English for the first time. The essays set forth his views on such matters as the freedom of Muslims to interpret the Qur'an, the inevitability of change in religion, the necessity of freedom of belief, and the compatibility of Islam and democracy. Throughout, Soroush emphasizes the rights of individuals in their relationship with both government and God, explaining that the ideal Islamic state can only be defined by the beliefs and will of the majority.

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