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Ahmad Qabil, a reason to believe and the New Religious Thinking in Iran
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Ahmad Qabil (d. 2012) was a mid-ranking seminarian who achieved considerable fame in Iran due to his foregrounding of reason in his jurisprudential writings, his opposition to both the strict ‘literalist’ version of sharica law propounded by the authorities in the Islamic Republic and the authoritarian regime of Ayatollah Khamenei, and for his 2004 fatwa which permitted women the choice about head covering (hijab). His commitment to reason and justice meant that his political and jurisprudential compositions and activities cannot be divorced from each other; rather, they developed in symbiotic fashion. Largely ignored by Western scholars, this article examines Qabil’s contribution to the so-called ‘New Religious Thinking’ movement in Iran. His writings and activities are significant because the reason-driven approach reflects an attempt to navigate a path based on sources within the Islamic jurisprudential tradition towards ‘universal’ standards that are common in the West, and thereby avoid the accusations of ‘cultural erosion’ through intellectual borrowing from the West.
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Individuals such as Mohsen Kadivar, Ahmad Qabel, Mohammad Soroush Mahallati, Ayatollah Assadollah Bayat Zanjani, and numerous others present moderate readings of religion in relation to a range of matters.
“Individuals such as Mohsen Kadivar, Ahmad Qabel, Mohammad Soroush Mahallati, Ayatollah Assadollah Bayat Zanjani (Ridgeon 2020(Ridgeon , 2021;;Jahanbakhsh 2020), as well as numerous others, present moderate readings of religion in relation to a range of matters.”
From Wasatiyya Discourse in Shi’i Islam: Ayatollah Montazeri and Human Rights Jurisprudence (2022) · cites this paper as Ridgeon 2020
The Introduction (p. 2) identifies Mohsen Kadivar and Ahmad Qabil as New Religious Thinkers and describes the movement’s reformist interpretations of Islam. The Introduction (p. 4) says its clerics propose reforms on a wide range of issues. Our copy does not establish that Mohammad Soroush Mahallati or Ayatollah Assadollah Bayat Zanjani present such readings; the Soroush named on p. 2 is Abdolkarim Soroush. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ridgeon, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Ridgeon, Lloyd
- Venue
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-08-21
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-15
- ISSN
- 0026-3206 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-7881
- OpenAlex
- W2923411162
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 5.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- eprints.gla.ac.uk
- Licence
- cc-by-sa
- Locations
- Middle Eastern Studies (publishedVersion)
- ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Islamic Studies and History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Qur’anic Interpretation Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Islamic Thought and Society Studies
- Keywords
- Islamic jurisprudence, reason in Islamic law, Islamic Republic of Iran, women's head covering, seminary students, political theology, cultural erosion
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