Sunday, November 28, 2004
Women And Islam - Dr Ali Shariati plays one from the leftfield
For those of you who don't know Dr Ali Shariati wa a bit of a clever bloke.
Not only was he a cleric's son , educated at the highest level in Qom - he then went on to learn and then teach at the Sorbonne (yep the one in Paris). He also turned out to be one of the main intellectual bastions of the Iranian Revolution.
His aim in life was to unify left leaing thoguht with Islam, specially Shi'i islam, and he belived that the role of women was misunderstood by both mainstream Islam and the West.
Read on folks
Not only was he a cleric's son , educated at the highest level in Qom - he then went on to learn and then teach at the Sorbonne (yep the one in Paris). He also turned out to be one of the main intellectual bastions of the Iranian Revolution.
His aim in life was to unify left leaing thoguht with Islam, specially Shi'i islam, and he belived that the role of women was misunderstood by both mainstream Islam and the West.
Read on folks
