Abdolkarim Soroush (عبدالكريم سروش), born Hosein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (1945-; Persian: حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian thinker, philosopher, reformer, Rumi scholar and a former professor at the University of Tehran. He is a well-known figure in religious intellectual movement in Iran. Professor Soroush is currently a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He was also affiliated with prestigious institutions, including Harvard...
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Abdolkarim Soroush (عبدالكريم سروش), born Hosein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (1945-; Persian: حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian thinker, philosopher, reformer, Rumi scholar and a former professor at the University of Tehran. He is a well-known figure in religious intellectual movement in Iran. Professor Soroush is currently a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He was also affiliated with prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. In 2005, Time Magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people and in 2008 Prospect magazine named him the seventh most influential intellectual in the world.
Abdolkarim Soroush was born in Tehran in 1945. Upon finishing high school, Soroush began studying Pharmacy after passing the National Entrance exams of Iran. After completing his degree, he soon left Iran for London in order to continue his studies and to become familiar with the modern world.
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