| Political scientist Behrouz Khosrozadeh portrays Iranian thinker Abdolkarim Soroush whose book, "Expansion of Prophetic Experience", which is due out in English this year questions the Koran and has brought him parallels with Salman Rushdie. "It is impossible to overestimate the radicalness of what he is saying. Even the most courageous Muslim reformist thinkers such as Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid and Mohammad Arkoun have never demanded more than historically-oriented reading of the Koran. Soroush has now broken the greatest taboo of Islamic exegesis. 'The Koran,' he says, 'is man's creation and potentially fallible.'" |