The image of the religious intellectual according to the thinker Abdel Karim Soroush

Abstract

The views of the Iranian thinker, Abdel-Karim Soroush, aroused a lot of controversy among the educated elite, and among the views that provoked controversy and were subjected to criticism and accountability at different stations, is his perception of the religious intellectual and his reformist role in society, which puts the reins of cultural reform from those with a renewal trend, who are basically different They differ from others in the ideologies of their understanding of reality, keen on their religious commitment in light of their reform quest. In order to avoid falling into inaccuracies and the circumstances of the prevailing concepts in the customs and traditions of societies, Soroush put a set of features among the tasks that the religious intellectual was obligated to, guaranteeing him the achievement of a successful social system.