In The Reconstruction of the Religious Thought in Islam , Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), known as the poet-philosopher of Islam, offers an ...
In The Reconstruction of the Religious Thought in Islam, Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), known as the poet-philosopher of Islam, offers an inspiring discourse on a number of vital issues related to Islam such as the meaning of the religious experience, the reason and revelation, the concept of God, the meaning of the prayer, the religious reform and secularism, and Islam’s relationship with the West.
Iqbal’s reflections, given as lectures in British India in the early decades of the twentieth century and later published, have been translated into major world languages like Arabic, German, French, Spanish, Indonesian and Urdu. Appearing in Italian, for the first time, the themes of the lectures are still relevant in the West, as the world of Islam and the West are encountering each other in an unprecedented way in today’s multicultural world.
With its original insights into the Quran, the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the works of pre-eminent Muslim scholars like Ibn Hazm, Ibn Rushd, Al-Ghazzali, Ibn Taimiyyah and Shah Waliullah, Iqbal’s dense but beautifully constructed prose gives a serious reader nothing short of an intellectual illumination.
Iqbal’s discourse is a synthesis of both the Islamic and Western streams of knowledge, as he also examines the Greek philosophy and the thoughts of some of the finest Western philosophers and scientists such as Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Einstein, William James and Henri Bergson.
