Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

Javed Majeed (King's College London)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Domains

Islam

Dates

First circulation or publication 1934

Places

Pakistan (Country of Origin)
United Kingdom (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Essays/ Lectures (any)

Resources

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Iqbal’s major prose work in English,

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

(1934), is based on six lectures he gave at the Universities of Hyderabad, Madras, and Aligarh in 1928 and 1929, and one lecture he gave at the Aristotelian society in London in December 1932. An earlier edition based only on the first six lectures was published as

Six Lectures on the Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

(1930).

The book expresses Iqbal’s key ideas and major preoccupations (Schimmel 1963). It has been described as the “most serious Indian-Pakistani interpretation of Islam in modern philosophic terms” (Fakhry 1997, p. 154). In general, the book seeks to defend the worth and value of religion, and Islam in particular, against its intellectual marginalization in the modern

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Citation: Majeed, Javed. "The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 July 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=30676, accessed 25 November 2024.]