Christian Encounters with Iran: Engaging Muslim Thinkers After the Revolution. By Sasan Tavassoli (2024)

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Christian Encounters with Iran: Engaging Muslim Thinkers After the Revolution. By Sasan Tavassoli. I.B. Tauris, 2011. 305 pages. $88.00.

Saba Soomekh

Loyola Marymount University

ssoomekh@yahoo.com

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Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 81, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 887–891, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lft026

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11 July 2013

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Born and raised in a Shi'i Sufi home in Iran, Sasan Tavassoli is an Iranian Presbyterian minister living in the United States. In a time when Iran is constantly in the news, his book gives us a better understanding of how Shi'i intellectuals and religious leaders have engaged with Christianity since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Tavassoli argues that Iranian society has become one of the most intellectually dynamic cultures in the Muslim world and states that his book offers a window into some of the positive, unprecedented changes taking place in Iran by Shi'i Muslims in regard to attitudes toward and interactions with Christianity (vi).

Tavassoli acknowledges that the Iranian regime has an abhorrent record of human rights abuses, censorship of the press, persecution of religious minorities, and suppression of freedom of expression, all of which have worsened under the regime of the current Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Yet Tavassoli's book illuminates how, unbeknownst to much of the West, Iranian Shi'i thinkers—some with the support of the Iranian government—have been engaged in interfaith dialogue with Christian theologians. Shi'i clerics from Qum have been actively involved in research and publication on Christianity, and some of Iran's most prominent religious intellectuals have been deeply influenced by Christian thought in their own understanding of Islam (vi).

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