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“Dr Iqbal is the Indian poet-philosopher who initially came up with the idea of Pakistan. He emphasises the concept of ijtihad.” Read more...
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Hassan Abbas, International Relation
“Most people think that The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam is a religious text focused on theological issues. But in my opinion, Muhammad Iqbal, who is renowned in the Indian subcontinent as a poet and philosopher, was the first Muslim futurist. And this powerful and challenging book is packed with deep insights on the future of Islam. Like me, Iqbal is concerned with shaping rather than predicting the future. He was totally disillusioned by the religious scholars who he described as ‘ignorant’ and ‘absolutely incapable of receiving any fresh inspiration from modern thought and experience’. He wanted to develop a modern epistemology of Islam as the basis for the reconstruction of a future Muslim civilisation.” Read more...
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Ziauddin Sardar, Theologians & Historians of Religion
