Muhammad Iqbal : Essays on the Reconstruction of Modern Muslim Thought
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About The Book
There are few moments in human history where the forces of religion, culture and politics converge to produce some of the most significant philosophical ideas in the world. India in the early twentieth century saw one of these moments with the rise of activist-thinkers like Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi, individuals who liberated not only human lives but their minds as well. One of most influential members of that group was the poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. Commonly known as the 'spiritual father of Pakistan', Iqbal's philosophical and political ideas shaped not just the face of Indian Muslim nationalism but also the direction of modernist reformist Islam around the world.
New developments in research on Iqbal's thought are collected here, coming from a range of prominent and emerging voices from political science, philosophy and religious studies. They offer new and novel examinations of the ideas that lie at the heart of Iqbal's own thought: religion, science, metaphysics, nationalism and religious identity. Readers will (re)discover many new connections between the 'Sage of the Ummah' and the greatest thinkers and ideas of European and Islamic philosophies.
- Responds to the renewed interest in Iqbal by developing new interpretations and understandings
- Examines ideas central to Iqbal's thought such as the connection between religious belief and modern knowledge, and the political dimension of Muslim identity
- Explores the links between Iqbal and other philosophers who were his contemporaries including Bergson, Peirce, and Whitehead
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About the author
Muhammad Iqbal: Sir Muhammad Iqbal rahimahullah (1877-1938) was the foremost Urdu and Persian poet-philosopher of the modern Muslim world and the spiritual father of Pakistan. Born in Sialkot, Punjab, he received his early education in the traditional Qur'anic and Persian literary tradition before pursuing higher studies at Government College Lahore, then at Trinity College Cambridge, and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he earned his doctorate on the development of metaphysics in Persia. His celebrated Urdu works include the poems Shikwa (Complaint) and Jawab-e-Shikwa (Answer to the Complaint), which gave voice to the spiritual anguish and hope of the Muslim Umma. His philosophical lectures delivered at Lahore, Hyderabad, and Aligarh were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, a foundational text of modern Islamic intellectual thought. Iqbal served as president of the All India Muslim League in 1930 and articulated his vision of a separate Muslim homeland in his Allahabad Address. He is revered across the Muslim world as Shair-e-Mashriq, the Poet of the East.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781474424172
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Muhammad Iqbal
Pages
256
Editor
H. C. Hillier and Basit Bilal Koshul
Year Published
2017
Size
W- | H- | D-
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