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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. FeaturesIncludes a critical introduction by the editors, Soroush's intellectual autobiography, plus his own introduction Reviews"This selection of [Khatami's] writings reveals a genuinely liberal intellect rooted in Soroush's Iranian and Islamic culture but at home with Western thought...his statements are penetrating and coherent." --Foreign Affairs ",,,the major significance of these writings is the manner in which Western ideas of the prominence of reason on the one hand and a judgment of the intellectual hopelessness of post-modernism on the other hand leads to the affirmation of belief."--Middle East Studies Association Bulletin "Soroush's call for the unabashed application of reason to all the problems of the Muslim community is a profoundly liberating approach to religious and intellectual modernization."--Social Epistemology Journal of Knowledge, Culture, & Policy Table of ContentsIntroduction ix Intellectual Autobiography: An Interview 3 (23) Islamic Revival and Reform: Theological Approaches 26 (13) Life and Virtue: The Relationship between Socioeconomic Development and Ethics 39 (15) The Sense and Essence of Secularism 54 (15) Doctrine and Justification 69 (19) Reason and Freedom 88 (17) The Ethics of the Gods 105 (17) The Idea of Democratic Religious Government 122 (9) Tolerance and Governance: A Discourse on Religion and Democracy 131 (25) The Three Cultures 156 (15) What the University Expects from the Hawzeh 171 (13) Let Us Learn from History 184 (15)Notes 199 (28)Selected References 227 (3)Index 230