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 thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar, public intellectual, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdolkarim Soroush has received more than 246,061 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Abdolkarim Soroush is the 991st most popular philosopher (down from 974th in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from Iran (down from 298th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Iranian Philosopher.

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  • 23

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  • 2.02

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  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Abdolkarim Soroush ranks 991 out of 1,267. Before him are Wei Yuan, Achille Mbembe, Ernst Tugendhat, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Dimitri Kitsikis, and Athenodorus Cananites. After him are Harry Frankfurt, Merab Mamardashvili, Sphaerus, Jean Rostand, Nana Asmaʼu, and Thomas Arnold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Abdolkarim Soroush ranks 301. Before him are David Chase, John Doman, Burning Spear, Sadok Sassi, Tony Roche, and Marsha P. Johnson. After him are Salvador Valdés Mesa, Ana Martín, Katja Ebstein, Gérard Lenorman, Yuri Antonov, and Nadezhda Chizhova.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abdolkarim Soroush ranks 318 out of 631. Before him are Jamshid Amouzegar (1923), Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931), Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923), Farrokhroo Parsa (1922), Kamal-ol-molk (1848), and Ibn Bibi (1250). After him are Sami Yusuf (1980), Mohammad Ali Fardin (1930), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960), Fatemeh Pahlavi (1928), and Navvab Safavi (1924).

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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), Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1892), Al-Taftazani (1322), Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), and Hossein Nasr (1933). After him are Dariush Shayegan (1935), and Taraneh Javanbakht (1974).

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