Editing Ali Shari’ati (section)

==Biography==
Born in 1933 in the province of Khorasan, northeast of Iran, Ali Shari’ati died in 1977 in London. His intellectual disposition was formed in early adulthood through his involvement with the Center for the Propagation of Islamic Truths, an educational and advocacy institute founded by his father, and later with the movement God-Worshiping Socialists. Both organizations advocated a reformist Islam, the goal of which was to liberate religion from its “regressive” and “passive” outlook and to promote social justice. Shari’ati never received any traditional seminarian education. He earned a bachelor’s degree in French from Mashhad University in 1958 and received his doctorate from the Sorbonne in

1963. His residence in Paris in the early 1960s and his exposure to African anticolonial movements and their French intellectual advocates proved to be significant in the development of his Islamic worldview.