The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Muhammad Iqbal’s six lectures, delivered in Madras, Hyderabad and Aligarh at the end of the 1920s, are the most sustained modern attempt to rethink Islamic thought against European philosophy and the science of the period. Iqbal argues for ijtihad, for the reopening of interpretation, and for a conception of the self that draws on Bergson and Nietzsche as readily as on Rumi. The Stanford edition, with an introduction by Javed Majeed.
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Ziauddin Sardar
The book presents an alternative vision of a dynamic, thriving future civilisation of Islam. It starts with an observation that is also a glaring dichotomy. Given that Islam is perforce a future-orientated world view, why is the future so conspicuously absent from contemporary Muslim thought and discourses? So – single-handedly for almost a decade – I tried to shape a current discourse on Islamic futures.
Interview · June 2010
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