Tag: iqbal
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Predicament: Iqbal or Iqbal’s?
Muhammad Iqbal is under siege from both sides. Liberal-secular critics dismiss him as a provincial mind intoxicated by the West, whose reconstruction of Islamic thought amounts to European modernity clumsily draped in Qur’anic rhetoric. South Asian hagiographers have made him untouchable. Neither camp serves him well. More recently, a far more serious challenge has emerged…
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Understanding the Self Through Muhammad Iqbal’s Philosophical and Political Thought
What is ḳhūdī? For Muhammad Iqbal, one of the foremost celebrated intellectuals and poets of South Asia, his falsafa-e-ḳhūdī (philosophy of the self) is one of the most discussed elements of his intellectual thought. As a philosopher, poet, lawyer, and more, Iqbal is a prominent figure both in South Asian households and in scholarly circles,…
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Deconstructing the Reconstruction: Analyzing Iqbalian Discourse
A Book Review of The Reconstruction of Religious Thought by Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Known as the spiritual father of the “idea of Pakistan” and “Hakeem-ul-Ummat (sage of Ummah),” Allama Sir Muhammed Iqbal commands a profound impact on the Muslim intellectual tradition.