Abdolkarim Soroush

Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush, a native from Iran and one of the most influential liberal Islamic thinkers, talks about the "Modern Islam and the modern West" in his interview with the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE):
- Many in the West would argue that the combination of "modern" and "Islam" is a contradiction. So let me ask you directly: is a "modern Islam" possible?
- In the West we had the Enlightenment. For the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, the Enlightenment was the emancipation of the human consciousness from an immature state of ignorance. Does the Islamic world need a comparable process as the Western Enlightenment?
- Where do you see the role of the West in the process of modernising Islamic societies?

[@dr.behrouzghazvini]

This person closed all Iranian universities for four years and fired many university professors and made many Iranian educated people stay at home.

[@Arash_kianbakhsh]

He is a criminal

[@hamidhamidi3134]

Exactly. He and his friends used to call the US the Great Devil, but now he is enjoying all his freedom and his rights and the good life in the US while the people of Iran suffer.

[@farahfahim9233]

He owes an apology to Iranian people and should definitely be prosecuted for the crimes he committed against our country! Shame on him!

[@gril7279]

shame on you

[@farahfahim9233]

@@gril7279 You son of a bitch get your fund from IR to support these bastards and don’t worry about anything!

[@mohammadhassantabesh4955]

Exactly

[@mohammadhassantabesh4955]

@@gril7279 No shame on you.

[@MohamedElouarda-qk6ws]

@@mohammadhassantabesh4955 Can you explain it ? Are you iranian ?

[@mohammadhassantabesh4955]

He is not welcome to any where and any way. He should go to the court.

[@mohammadhassantabesh4955]

Soroush Is not important person anymore because he is a layer. Please don’t give him credit or chances for interview. He should go to the court and answer to many questions.

[@mohamadmokhtar9818]

Belive in something that you can not logically & documentaries prove it, can change a man even with high to a fool.The difference is the educated one,s make better lies to prove themselves...

[@rezassorg8773]

خدا نگذره از سروش که درسیه روزی ما نقش مهمی داشته ..اگر اندکی یا به اندازه یک سرسوزنی اخرت را قبول داشته باشه ..از این موهبت بزرگ فضای مجازی باید حلالیت بطلبد ..چون اونجا را شنیدم خودطرف داوری خواهد کرد باخود پاک وسرشت پاک عمل را داوری میکند ..ارزو میکنم خودش ونسل بعدش از بزرگ وکوچکشون سالم باشن اما ارامش روان نداشته باشن

[@abaseslami1262]

درود بر شاهزاده رضا پهلوی

[@drabedpoor9426]

اوایل انقلاب و برنامه های تلویزیونی ات یادش بخیر.بحث های دو سه ساعتی با گروههای مختلف و سه ساعت بحث و و جدل و گرفتن وقت مردم.

[@user-bh2zt1ds3u]

B.....ty

[@fatalist4077]

Kiss my as u Abdolkarim bagenagi

[@faribasabaei9822]

Abdolkarim sorush, 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@arino007]

IF ALL THE MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD READ BOOKS 5 TIMES A DAY < WE HAD NO POOR MUSLIMS COUNTRY IN THIS WORLD

[@mahdinezamabadi7483]

Liberal Islam?!! What's that?! He's a liar!

[@02any1]

He can’t modernise death

[@felorhajibek8814]

Goh be rishet

[@bayreuth79]

Does not interpretation presuppose an essence? When I interpret x I am trying to understand what x is essentially, am I not? There is no doubt that interpretation is coloured by subjectivites; but if there is no essence with regard to the thing interpreted then "Islam" becomes nothing more than a vehicle for my own time-bound prejudices.

[@mohammadhassantabesh4955]

Sourish he did laying about Iranian king .

[@mr.y5616]

شاه و شیخ دو روی یک سکه خیانت غارت و جنایت

[@Sourena291]

you haven't lived with Islam's idea so you don't know what is Islam . you just see some people like him talking about modern Islam. I hope you experiance Islam like we experianced. then you'll know what Islam is! . I personally wish you have it if you are intersted to have it! One day a man said that we Iranians owed a leadership to the mullahs, which I think the West also owes.

[@mohammadhassantabesh4955]

So ?

[@olivezeyton2691]

i respect Soroush.. but he is not to the point also he is vague in some cases, he cant explain the whole picture he want to draw... but furthermore, he is bias in some of his view. eg. he say Muslim try to be critique of west.. and should do that..that is not true at all. even himself is not critique of west. but he is supporter of west. ppl in Iran are either detest the western value or love it.. and no one is after knowing what what went wrong in western civilization and ways of life.

[@mr.y5616]

What you respect about this Baster whom prosecuted thousabds of Univercity students in Iran

[@olivezeyton2691]

accept it totally, without questioning, and those who denounce western ideologies harshly criticize it. BUT the profound question remain unanswered ! and that is a modern Islam need to be the true and real Islam applied in modern ways of life. sure, it sound simple. but its true.sadly Islamic scholar and thinker like soroush tries to mi things up. islam can be on its own and still can operate and function perfectly in modern time. so no need to learn from west or adhere to their.. but remain-

[@sarakemalledini5002]

مزدوران

[@user-ib6ku9vb6b]

خوب بماند که عربی حرف میزدند هندی ها . حاج آقا این آقای شوشتری رفتن هند برا چی؟ مگه نه برا اون خانواده بوده ،؟ رفتنش چه سود داشته برا اونا . چرا حرفی دیگه نشد . وقتی این اقا هم نماز و دست بسته خوند چه فایده از بودنش در هند و برا خانواده اون شیعه؟؟؟ خواهشا یکم احترام قائل باشین برا مردم

[@markvakili956]

Combination of modern Islam and modern Islam made him move to modern western countries. The rest of his mumbled words are decorative wording to defend an idea which does not tolerate and does not exist in real world

[@avestagatha]

👈the biggest layer and a killer is this man who banded me and thousands of thousands of other students from university. This man beloog to prison for all he did against young Iranian men and women

[@saadiRezaei]

متوهم

[@mehraddoust2281]

Good analysis....

[@olivezeyton2691]

in Islamic path. that mean explaining islam via a modern language. again modernity is not universal concept. so many factor involves in defining modernity and even we can narrow down to personal factors..so trying to explain where we went wrong and what Islam should do with modern life should be independently studies without involvement of western or eastern.. i mean why now west? cause of power. we have other civilization such as Indian, Chinese.. simply its because of their prosperity...

[@higherself4447]

لهجه انگلیسی حرف زدنت 😂