"If a group of people feels that it……" — Abdolkarim Soroush
"If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms."
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Abdolkarim Soroush
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23 Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks…
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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