Témoignage de Noureddine BEN KHADER. Entretien avec Michel Camau et Vincent Geisser, Tunis, avril 2002, extrait de l’ouvrage Habib Bourguiba. La trace et l’héritage, Paris, Karthala, 2004 . Avant d’aborder votre parcours politique, pourriez-vous nous parler de vos origines familiales ? Je suis issu d’une famille semi-féodale du sud tunisien. Mon grand p […].
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Existing Political Vessels Cannot Contain the Reform Movement.
Interview with Sai’id Hajjarian. Introdution: Sai’id Hajjarian, a leading theorist of the democratic Islamist New Left, is one of President Khatami’s closest political advisers. In 1998 he ran for the Tehran City Council, receiving the second largest number of votes. Hajjarian is also the official permit holder for the daily Sobh-e Emrooz and serves on […].
Intellectual Autobiography.
Interview with Abdolkarim Soroush. Sadri: I would like to ask you for an account of your intellectual development. I am certainly interested in whether you distinguish any turning points, watersheds, or distinct periods in the evolution of your thought. Soroush: In the name of God the compassionate, the merciful, thank you for giving me this opportunity […].
Travel.
Interview with Abdolkarim Soroush. April 1997 – Following his return to UK from the United States and shortly before he left London for Tehran to end a twelve-month absence from the country, Dr Soroush spoke to SERAJ in an exclusive interview. Here is a summarised translation of this conversation. Dr. Soroush, over the last few months, you have travelle […].
Setting the Record Straight.
Interview with Edward Said. by Harvey Blume *. Born in Jerusalem in 1935 to a prosperous Palestinian Christian family, educated at Princeton, and currently a University Professor of Literature at Columbia University, Edward Said is a writer whose work has had extraordinary range. Perhaps because he himself lives on the cusp of so many cultures, he has s […].
« Seul le Coran oblige ». Mohamed Talbi.
Pour le réformateur tunisien, il n’y a pas de conviction sans interrogation. Et toute forme de critique est possible quand on est musulman de conviction. Historien, ancien recteur de l’université de Tunis, fils du bourguibisme, Mohamed Talbi, musulman pratiquant, est aujourd’hui l’un des penseurs les plus rigoureux et les plus audacieux de la réforme de […].
« Ce ne sont pas les bombes et les bateaux qui vont résoudre… »
la violence est-elle consubstantielle à l’islam ? Poser ainsi la question est choquant. C’est isoler l’islam de toute la problématique anthropologique de la violence. Bien avant l’intervention de ce qu’on nomme l’islam, il y avait dans toutes les sociétés primitives des rites sacrificiels, des actes de violence guerrière. Et cela continue dans nos soci […].
