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Mohammad Mojtahid Shabestari’s response to Dr. Soroush: My dear friend Dr. Abdul Karim Soroush, in his recent speech entitled the 40th anniversary of the revolution, mentioned a book that contains five articles by five authors, one of whom is Mohammad Mojtahid Shabestari. This book, called “Women and Elections,” was written in the 1930s in the Qom seminary during the leadership of Mr. Boroujerdi, and its subject is opposition to the Shah’s government granting women the right to vote and run for office in elections. Mr. Soroush said that this book was written at the behest of Mr. Boroujerdi, and Mr. Shabestari argued in his own article in the book that because women’s brains are smaller than men’s, they do not have the right to interfere and intervene in political affairs, and that this right is reserved for men. A few years ago, he had stated the same thing on another occasion. I do not know how this mistake occurred to Dr. Soroush. First, that book was written at the authors’ own initiative and not at the behest of Mr. Boroujerdi. Secondly, the author's article in that book is a purely jurisprudential article that explains the jurisprudential arguments of Shiite and Sunni authorities regarding opposition to women's right to vote and presidency, and there is no mention of the brains of men and women in that article. In the Madrasah Quarterly, No. 6, Mr. Jalal Tavakolian, in the article "Life of Mojtahid Shabestari," gave explanations about that book and clarified that Shabestari's article in that book is an argumentative jurisprudential article and nothing more. It is clear that I have been passing over such jurisprudential arguments for several decades.