12/1/2022 0 Comments Mujaddid of 21st century![]() With his call for individuality as the aim of the Quranic revelation, he has recently been taken up as a model for Islam in the 21st century by progressive Muslims.įrom his preoccupation with the Quran, Iqbal found answers to the questions posed by societal change, colonialism and British education that are Quranic on the one hand, but are filtered by the discourses in British Indian society around 1900, and by his readings of Goethe, Nietzsche, Kant, and other Western philosophers. He is one of the few theorists of Islam who have understood and replied to Kant. Yet, he can be regarded as one of the great representatives of the philosophy of life (“Lebensphilosophie”) beside Nietzsche and Bergson, both of whom he had studied. ![]() ![]() Muhammad Iqbal from Lahore, then British India, is not very well known in German-speaking countries. ![]()
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