1996 — The Iranian Perspective on the Caspian Sea and Central Asia, in Prof | He is one of the editors of the Great Encyclopedia of Islam, published in Tehran, and chairs the department of Theology and Sects of the |
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Shabestari even suggests that there has been a divine providence for a separation of religious values and secular realities: In his latest book, Naghdi Bar Ghera'at e Rasmi az Din A Critique of the Official Reading of Religion, December, 2000 Shabestari pursues his critique of religious absolutism as hermeneutically naive and realistically unworkable | He was influenced by 's idea that "Islamic ethics was not limited" to "personal relationships", but should be "reflected in the state and its form of government |
He was also Imam of between 1970 and 1978 | He also learned German and was able to pursue his interest, already evident in Qom, in Western philosophy and Christian, especially Protestant, theology |
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Education and career [ ] As a student in , Shabestari studied with and | Collect the vocabulary that you want to remember while using the dictionary |
Since the early 1990s, he has been increasingly active in publishing articles in liberal daily papers and magazines in which he argues for a new, more critical approach to religion.
Shabestari argues that distinguishing the eternal values , from the changeable instances and applications in religion needs a kind of knowledge that is not, itself, contained in the rules developed in Islamic jurisprudence | Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari, 'Qara'at-e Nabavi az Jahan' [A Prophetic Reading of the World] |
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His philosophy and contributions [ ] Although Shabestari has made a modest contribution to the introduction and application of modern to traditional Shiite theology and jurisprudence, and thus to the proposition of variability of religious knowledge, his most significant contribution seems to be his authoritative commentary on the essentially limited nature of religious knowledge and rules, and thus the necessity of complementing it with extra-religious sources | 2021 But Luisi and the orchestra gave it assiduous attention, and in an age of so much assaultive new music, a dreamy escape was welcome |
too busy to spend time with the children implies characteristic or habitual devotion to work.
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