Winds of Change (eBook)

Cyrus Rohani is an advisor on social and economic development, and a management and education consultant. He studied at the American University of Beirut and later received an MBA from Sacred Heart University, Connecticut, USA. He worked with Shell-Qatar and then with Qatar Petroleum (oil and gas). Behrooz Sabet holds a doctorate from the State University of New York at Buffalo. For more than twenty years, Dr Sabet has been intellectually engaged in research and writing on the intersection of religion, science and culture in the Middle East. He has been a university professor, academic dean and consultant on aspects of education and culture in the Middle East, and has translated and written extensively on religious, ethical, educational, philosophical and social themes. Dr Sabet is a renowned scholar of religion, contemporary political thought and movements in Iran, and the conceptual and historical origins of modernity and its impact on Islam and Middle Eastern societies

Foreword Preface 1. Towards a Discursive Framework of Change, Behrooz Sabet & Cyrus Rohani 2. Culture for Openness and Coexistence: How Can We Create It?, Abdul Hamid Al-Ansari 3. Guiding Principles of Leadership for the Twenty-First Century, Cyrus Rohani 4. Confronting Violence through Policies of Dialogue: Towards Establishing a 'Citizenship that Incorporates Diversity' in the Post-ISIS Era, Saad Salloum 5. Nonviolence and the Challenges in the Middle East, Ramin Jahanbegloo 6. Religion of Peace: Islamic Principles of Good Governance, Christopher Buck 7. Traditionalist and Reformist Discourses Pertaining to Islamic Revival, Armin Eschraghi 8. Defining Islamic Social Principles, Christopher Buck 9. Women's Rights in the Middle East, Nazila Ghanea 10. Reason in Islam: Taking Back Their Own, Ian Kluge 11. 'Be Just': Qur'anic Ethics as Benchmarks for Islamic Law, Christopher Buck