PHILOSOPHER

Abdolkarim Soroush

1945 - Today

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Abdolkarim Soroush (عبدالكريم سروش () Persian pronunciation: [æbdolkæriːm soruːʃ]), born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 16 December 1945; Persian: حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian Islamic and Rumi scholar, and a former professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran. He is among the most influential figures in the religious intellectual movement of Iran. Soroush is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. He was also affiliated with other institutions including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, the Leiden-based International Institute as a visiting professor for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abdolkarim Soroush is the 1,032nd most popular philosopher (down from 991st in 2019), the 329th most popular biography from Iran (down from 319th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Iranian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Abdolkarim Soroush ranks 1,032 out of 1,267. Before him are Arulenus Rusticus, Michael Oakeshott, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Joachim Camerarius, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and R. M. Hare. After him are Rémi Brague, Lon L. Fuller, Hubert Dreyfus, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Friedrich Paulsen, and Justus Möser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Abdolkarim Soroush ranks 332. Before him are Mišo Cebalo, Tony Roche, Marsha P. Johnson, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, Vladimiro Montesinos, and John McVie. After him are Lydia Shum, Michael Blake, Patricia Crone, Gordon Thomson, Marion Rung, and Roberta Bondar.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abdolkarim Soroush ranks 329 out of 631. Before him are Anousheh Ansari (1966), Sadeq Khan Zand (1800), Luarsab II of Kartli (1592), Ivan Galamian (1903), Mirza Kuchik Khan (1880), and Ariobarzanes of Persis (-368). After him are Jafar Sharif-Emami (1910), Mahmoud Taleghani (1911), Abbas (1944), Kamal-ol-molk (1848), Esmat Dowlatshahi (1904), and Hossein Wahid Khorasani (1921).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Abdolkarim Soroush ranks 16. Before him are Mulla Sadra (1571), Al-Baydawi (1201), Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), Al-Taftazani (1322), Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1892), and Hossein Nasr (1933). After him are Dariush Shayegan (1935), and Taraneh Javanbakht (1974).

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