Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam

Zusatztext "Penetrating and coherent."--Foreign Affairs Informationen zum Autor About the Editors Mahmoud Sadri is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas Women's University. Ahmad Sadri is Associate Professor of Sociology at Lake Forest College. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The essays set forth Abdolkarim Soroush's 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.

Product details

• Authors: Abdolkarim Soroush, Soroush Abdolkarim
• Assisted by: Ahmad Sadri (Editor), Mahmoud Sadri (Editor), Sadri Ahmad (Editor), Sadri Mahmoud (Editor), Ahmad Sadri (Translation), Mahmoud Sadri (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9780195158205
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515820-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 237 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities