Reason, freedom, and democracy in Islam : essential writings of Abdolkarim Soroush

The author, one of the leading revisionist thinkers of the Muslim world, examines such matters as the inevitability of change in religion, the necessity of freedom of belief, and the compatibility of Islam with democracy.

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Mahmoud Sadri is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas Women's University. Ahmad Sadri is Associate Professor of Sociology at Lake Forest College.

Foreword	p. v
Introduction	p. ix
1 Intellectual Autobiography	p. 3
2 Islamic Revival and Reform Theological Approaches	p. 26
3 Life and Virtue	p. 39
4 The Sense and Essence of Secularism	p. 54
5 Doctrine and Justification	p. 69
6 Reason and Freedom	p. 88
7 The Ethics of the Gods	p. 105
8 The Idea of Democratic Religious Government	p. 122
9 Tolerance and Governance	p. 131
10 The Three Cultures	p. 156
11 What the University Expects from the Hawzeh	p. 171
12 Let Us Learn from History	p. 184
Notes	p. 199
Selected References	p. 227
Index	p. 230

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