Hassan Yussefi Eshkevari
Hassan Yussefi Eshkevari ( Persian حسن یوسفی اشکوری Hasan Yusefi Eschkewari ; * August 11, 1949 ) is a Shiite clergyman with the religious title Hodschatoleslam , writer, philosopher and one of the most famous critics within the Iranian clergy.
Life
The studied theologian, under the Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in Qom , is one of the most important Islam researchers in Iran today, especially through his participation in the creation of an encyclopedia of Islam . According to Katajun Amirpur , Eshkevari, who is in the tradition of Ali Shariati , in contrast to Abdolkarim Sorusch , undertakes a democracy- oriented interpretation of the Koran in order to reconcile Islam with democracy.
Indictment and conviction
Eshkevari, head of the Ali Shariati Documentation Center, was brought before the Special Court for the Clergy (Dadgahe Wijeye Rohaniat) for his participation in the Berlin Iran Conference in March 2000 after his return , and in a secret trial initially to death, later to one sentenced to several years in prison.
The special court for the clergy is an invention of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , which was institutionalized under the revolutionary leadership of Seyyed Alī Chāmene'īs . This unique court, similar to the Inquisition , negotiates acts that are incompatible with the dignity of a clergyman . A clergyman who, like Eshkevari, advocates the separation of state and religion falls within the remit of the special court.
On February 6, 2005, Eshkevari was released from custody. Since then he has lived in exile in Germany . At the presidential election in Iran in 2009 , he stated that "the most natural principles of Islam and the simplest rules of Islamic legal doctrine had been ignored".
Eshkevari's theses
- "After a hundred years of struggle against despotism, against cultural, social and political backwardness, after numerous defeats in this struggle, freedom, democracy and civil rights are now the focus of attention."
- "Basically, I am of the opinion that the term state has nothing to do with the term religion or belief."
- "I am against any kind of state that declares itself to be the rule of religion or the clergy." (March 2000)
See also
Publications
- Spirit of freedom . In: The time . No. 37, September 7, 2000
- with Mohsen Kadivar and Mohammad Modschtahed Schabestari : On the way to a different Islam. Texts by Iranian thinkers. Selected, translated and commented by Katajun Amirpur . Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-30309-8 .
literature
- Katajun Amirpur : The Depoliticization of Islam. Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-89913-267-X .
- Arash Sarkohi: The democracy and human rights discourse of the religious reformers in Iran and the universality of human rights. Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95650-022-0 .
Web links
- Forough Hossein Pour: How Iran Can Pave the Way to Democracy. Interview with Hassan Eshkevari. In: MiGAZIN . November 9, 2011.
Footnotes
- ↑ http://yousefieshkevari.com/?p=4576
- ↑ Deutsch PEN: Hojjatoleslam Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari . July 15, 2005.
- ↑ Urs Sartowicz: Freer , but heard less? In: Qantara.de . November 15, 2012.
- ↑ Iranian legal scholar Eshkevari: The election in Iran is invalid . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 17, 2009.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eshkevari, Hassan Yussefi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Shiite clergyman, writer and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1949 |