Abdolkarim Sorusch

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Sorusch in October 2006 at the Sharif University for Technology in Tehran

Abdolkarim Sorusch ( Persian عبدالكريم سروش ʿAbdulkarim Sorusch , DMG ʿAbdol-Karīm Sorūš , in English publications Albdolkarim Soroush ; * December 16, 1945 in Tehran ) is an Iranian philosopher . His real name is Hossein Hajj Faradschullāh Dabbagh .

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Sorusch spent his school days in the well-known Tehran private school Alawi , which was founded by religious businessmen. The teachers at this school were familiar with modern science. They were also religiously trained so that they could combine teaching with both the religious and modern sciences. Sorusch received a traditional Islamic education with the addition of the new sciences.

Sorusch studied pharmacy in Iran . He later went to London , where he deepened his studies in analytical chemistry and graduated with a doctorate in chemistry. In addition, he graduated from the University of Chelsea in the disciplines of history and philosophy , where he lived for five and a half years. During this time, Sorusch took an active part in political movements by Iranian students who aimed to overthrow the Shah .

Sorusch gave speeches in student political circles, which were recorded in writing and appeared as books. One of these books was Falsafeye Tarikh , in German Philosophy of History , which was known in Iran and regarded as the answer 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 called Nahadi-i Na Arami Jahan , in German The Dynamic Nature of the Universe . This book provides two important components of Islam, namely Tawhid and Ma'ad, based on the thoughts of Mullah Sadra . This book was read by leading Iranian clergymen, including the later revolutionary leader Khomeini , Ayatollah Tabatabi and Ayatollah Motahhari . Khomeini rated this book as exemplary and an enrichment for Islam.

Sorusch was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2005/06 . During this time he gave a lecture ( An Islamic Democratic State?) On the compatibility or partial incompatibility of Islam and democratic rule .

Philosophical thinking

His view of Islamic philosophy is based on the distinction between religion, as divine revelation, and the interpretation of religion or religious knowledge, which are tied to soci-historical factors. Sorusch is mainly active in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, the philosophical system of Rumi and comparative philosophy.

According to Sorusch, religion is different from the understanding of religion from an epistemological and historical point of view.

Sorusch is considered an eloquent intellectual and today represents a liberal interpretation of the Koran and secular-pluralistic positions. He wrote for the now banned Iranian magazine Kiyan (German: Horizont ), in which the connection between Islam and modernity was discussed in the early 1990s. Sorusch taught a. a. 2002 at Harvard . Annemarie Schimmel , head of German Islamic Studies and the 1995 Peace Prize laureate of the German book trade, spoke out in a letter written in Persian on August 21, 1997 to Iranian President Mohammad Chātami for Sorusch and the now exiled writer Faraj Sarkohi .

Awards

Well-known 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 or cannot 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.Teheran 1994
  • Sturdier than Ideology (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.

See also

literature

  • J. Cooper: The Limits of the Sacred: The Epistemology of 'Abd al-Karim Soroush , in: J. Cooper, R. Nettler, M. Mahmoud (eds.): Islam and Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond , IB Tauris, London 1998, pp. 38-56.
  • Ashk Dahlén: Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity . New York City 2003. ISBN 0-415-94529-1 .
  • Ziba Mir-Hosseini: Challanges and Complicities: Abdolkarim Soroush and Gender , in: Lloyd Ridgeon (ed.): Religion and Politics in Modern Iran: A Reader , IB Tauris, New York 2005, pp. 216-252.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fellow detail on Abdolkarim Sorusch at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2005/06)
  2. ^ Information Service Science: Event Notice An Islamic Democratic State? with Abdolkarim Sorusch
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Beyond the red line. Death on Wednesday? In Iran, Ayatollah Borudscherdi is being tried . By Navid Kermani (PDF file; 89 kB)
  4. ↑ Christopher de Bellaigue: In the rose garden of the martyrs. A portrait of Iran. From the English by Sigrid Langhaeuser, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006 (English original edition: London 2004), pp. 272 ​​and 274
  5. ↑ Abdolkarim Sorusch's sign of hope ( memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Amnesty journal: You not only kill people, but also hope. Journalist Akbar Ganji almost starved himself to death in protest against political repression in Iran , October 2005
  7. ↑ Baha's News: Jürgen Habermas meets a company ready to talk in Iran. The image of a silent society does not fit: Impressions from a trip to Iran / A conversation with Jürgen Habermas
  8. ^ ROG campaign for Faraj Sarkuhi
personal data
SURNAME Sorusch, Abdolkarim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES عبدالكريم سروش; Soroush, Abdol Karim; Sorush, ʿAbdulkarīm; Dabbagh, Hossein Haj Farajullāh (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran