Iqbal (Makers of Islamic Civilization) (Makers of Islamic Civilisation) - Softcover

Mir, Mustansir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845110943 ISBN 13: 9781845110949

Publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2006

Synopsis

Here is a highly informative yet accessibly-written introduction to the life and works of the writer and political thinker Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), who as President of the Muslim League played a vital role in the birth of Pakistan, and is revered today as its spiritual founder. In discussing Iqbal's thought, and analysing his poetry and prose at some length, Mir suggests that Iqbal represents a paragon for modern Muslims, caught as they are between tradition and modernity. Iqbal's attempt to integrate Islamic and Western elements in his intellectual, artistic and political lives makes him a figure that Muslims may respect and emulate, since he declared his passionate loyalty to the religion of Islam while at the same time differentiating between the eternal, or essential, and the historical, or incidental, in the Islamic tradition.

About this title

About the Author:

Mustansir Mir is Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of the Center for Islamic Studi Youngstown State University, Ohio.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1845110943
• ISBN 13: 9781845110949
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174