Mahmoud Sadri is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas Women's University.

Ahmad Sadri is Associate Professor of Sociology at Lake Forest College.

"This selection of [Khatami's] writings reveals a genuinely liberal intellect rooted in Soroush's Iranian and Islamic culture but at home with Western thought...his statements are penetrating and coherent." --Foreign Affairs

",,,the major significance of these writings is the manner in which Western ideas of the prominence of reason on the one hand and a judgment of the intellectual hopelessness of post-modernism on the other hand leads to the affirmation of belief."--Middle East Studies Association Bulletin

"Soroush's call for the unabashed application of reason to all the problems of the Muslim community is a profoundly liberating approach to religious and intellectual modernization."--Social Epistemology Journal of Knowledge, Culture, & Policy