[lit-ideas] The Moderate Soroush

I've been reading Robin Wright's The Last Great Revolution, Turmoil and
Transformation in Iran, 2001.  On page 32 she begins a chapter on Abdul
Karim Soroush, an Iranian moderate.  He was one of the heroes of the 1979
revolution, but he "started to challenge the untouchable core of ideas at
the heart of the revolution and even of Islam itself.  He began testing his
ideas, tentatively at first, at those informal Thursday-night talks
organized by his followers."  Wright interviewed him in Iran.  What's this,
an Islamic moderate working and writing from within Iran?  If even one major
moderate was tolerated in Iran, that would affect my view of that nation.

 

I went to Amazon.com to see if they had any translations from his writings.
I did find
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195158202/qid=1141063325/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1
/002-6407439-8140016?s=books
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195158202/qid=1141063325/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_
1/002-6407439-8140016?s=books&v=glance&n=283155> &v=glance&n=283155   In one
of the reviews I read that he had antagonized the Mullahs and was now living
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  

 

Lawrence

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