Abstract
This essay is a study of Iqbāl’s The Reconstruction of
Religious Thought in Islam as a continuation of Sayyid Ahmad
Khan’s quest for a framework to understand modernity from Islamic
perspective. Khan’s Jadid ‘ilm al-kalam defined his approach to
Islamic theology of modernity and later provided the basis for
‘Islamic modernism’. The essay argues that due to diverse
experiences of modernity objectifications of modernity changed
from science and nature in the nineteenth century to identity and
autonomy of self in the twentieth century in Iqbāl’s approach to
theology of modernity. The essay has three sections: the first
explains the origins of the Islamic theology of modernity; the
second offers an analysis of Iqbāl’s reconstruction of this theology,
and the third reviews recent critique of Iqbāl’s approach. The essay
concludes the discussion with an overview of contemporary
theologies of modernity in the Muslim world.
MUHAMMAD KHALID MASUD. (2007) IQBĀL’S APPROACH TO ISLAMIC THEOLOGY OF MODERNITY , Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 27, Issue 01.
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