Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) was one of the most influential modernist
Islamic thinkers of the early twentieth century. His work as a
poet, politician, philosopher, and public intellectual was widely
recognized in his lifetime and plays a major role in contemporary
conversations about Islam, modernity, and tradition. God, Science,
and Self examines the patterns of reasoning at work in Iqbal's
philosophic magnum opus, arguably the most significant text of
modernist Islamic philosophy, The Reconstruction of Religious
Thought in Islam. Since its initial publication in 1934, The
Reconstruction has left scholars in a quandary: its themes appear
eclectic, and its arguments contradictory and philosophically
perplexing. In this groundbreaking study, Nauman Faizi argues that
the keys to demystifying the contradictions of The Reconstruction
are two competing epistemologies at play within the work. Iqbal
takes knowledge to be descriptive, essential, foundational, and
binary, but he also takes knowledge to be performative, contextual,
probabilistic, and vague. Faizi demonstrates how these approaches
to knowledge shape Iqbal's claims about personhood, God, scripture,
philosophy, and science. God, Science, and Self offers an original
approach to interpreting Islamic thought as it crafts relationships
between scriptural texts, philosophic thought, and scientific
claims for modern Muslim subjects.
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