Muhammad Iqbal: Essays on the Reconstruction of Modern Muslim Thought

ISBN-13: 9780748695416 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 256 str.

Chad Koshul Hillier; H. C. Hillier; Basit Bilal Koshul

Opis

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 20th century was one of these moments, where we saw the rise of activist-thinkers like Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi; individuals who not only liberated human lives but their minds as well. One of most influential members of the group was the poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. Commonly known as the "spiritual father of Pakistan," the philosophical and political ideas of Iqbal not only shaped the face of Indian Muslim nationalism but also shaped the direction of modernist reformist Islam around the world. Bringing together a diverse number of prominent and emerging scholars, from backgrounds in political science, philosophy and religious studies, this book offers novel examinations of the philosophical ideas that laid at the heart of Iqbal's own As such, by producing new developments in research on Iqbal's thought from a diversity of prominent and emerging voices within American and European Islamic studies, this text will offer new and novel examinations of the ideas that lies at the heart of Iqbal's own thought: religion, science, metaphysics, nationalism and religious identity. In our text, the reader will (re)discover many new connections between the "Sage of the Ummah" to the greatest thinkers and ideas of European and Islamic philosophies.

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Introduction, Riffat Hassan; 2. The Human Person in Iqbal’s Thought, Ebrahim Moosa; 3. Achieving Humanity: Convergence between Henri Bergson and Muhammad Iqbal, Souleymane Bachir Diagne; 4. The Contemporary Relevance of Muhammad Iqbal, Basit Bilal Koshul; 5. Pragmatism and Islam in Peirce and Iqbal: The Metaphysics of Emergent Mind, Richard Gilmore; 6. Between Hegel and Rumi: Iqbal’s Contrapuntal Encounters with the Islamic Philosophical Traditions, Sajjad Rizvi; 7. Reconstructing Islam in a Post-metaphysical Age: Muhammad Iqbal’s Interpretation of Immortality, Christopher Scott McClure; 8. Iqbal, Bergson and the Reconstruction of the Divine Nexus in Political Thought, H. C. Hillier; 9. Muhammad Iqbal: Restoring Muslim Dignity through Poetry,Philosophy and Religious Political Action, Dayne E. Nix; Index.