God, Science, and Self

Muhammad Iqbal's Reconstruction of Religious Thought

Nauman Faizi

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McGill-Queen's University Press
15 August 2021

Islamic & Arabic philosophy; Religion & science; Islam

Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Modern Islamic Thought

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.

By: Nauman Faizi
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780228006596
ISBN 10: 0228006597
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Modern Islamic Thought
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 15 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nauman Faizi is assistant professor of religion and program director of the Study of Religion stream at Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Reviews for God, Science, and Self: Muhammad Iqbal's Reconstruction of Religious Thought

God, Science, and Self broadens the study of Iqbal in particular, and modern Islamic thought in general, demonstrating a modern, anti-colonial project that deserves to be revisited in the current context. Abdulkader Tayob, University of Cape Town God, Science, and Self advances contemporary work in Islamic thought and religious studies by introducing a hermeneutics of modernity that has the potential to reshape analyses of modern thought and its relation to religious reflection. Randi Rashkover, College of William & Mary and author of Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity, and the Theopolitical Problem