The
Catholic University of America
Columbus
School of Law
Interdisciplinary Program in Law and
Religion
Is
pleased to present a lecture by the eminent Iranian
theologian
Dr.
Abdulkarim Soroush
Islam
and the Concept of ?Secularity?
Monday,
May 10, 2004
12
p.m.
Room
322B
The
Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center
Reception
to follow
Dr.
Abdulkarim Soroush was born in Tehran in 1945. After being
trained on Tehran as a pharmacologist and philosopher, he left
for the United Kingdom where he studied history and philosophy
of science, particularly the philosophy of Karl Popper and
Thomas Kuhn. During the months preceding the Islamic
Revolution of Iran, Soroush had a large share in the
gatherings of young Muslims, opponents of the Shah?s regime,
that tool place in the London imam-barah. His book,
Dialectical Antagonism, a compilation of his lectures
delivered in the imam-barah, was published in Iran. When the
revolution began, in 1979, Soroush returned to Iran. In the
spring of 1980, Soroush was appointed member of the Council
for the Cultural Revolution, established by Ayatollah
Khomeini. In 1982, he left this council for good and never
accepted any governmental offices after that.
Among the
subjects he taught in Tehran University and elsewhere was
Islamic mysticism, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of
Ethics. Soroush became a member of Iran?s Academy of Sciences
in 1990. About a thousand audiotapes of speeches by Soroush on
various social, political, religious and literary subjects
delivered all over the world are widely in circulation in Iran
and elsewhere. From the year 2000 onwards, Abdulkarim Soroush
has been Visiting Professor in Harvard University. He is also
a Scholar in Residence in Yale University and a Visiting
Fellow in Islamic Political Philosophy at Princeton
University.
RSVP
by calling Constantia Dedoulis
at
202-319-6081 or e-mail Dedoulis@law.edu
- Garage
parking is available at the Columbus School of
Law
- The
Edward J. Pryzbyla Center is located on the CUA/Brookland
stop of
Metro?s Red Line
