Iqbal’s Concept of God

DescriptionIqbal’s Concept of God provides a pioneering assessment and critique of the doctrine of God as developed by Sir Muhammad Iqbal in his celebrated work The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Reviews of the First Edition ‘A pioneering assessment…a non-conformist approach towards understanding Iqbal.’ – World Islamic Times ‘…provides, perhaps for the first time, a critique of Iqbal’s doctrine of God as developed in his celebrated work.’ – Muslim World Book Reviews ‘It contributes seriously to the wider study of mysticism and problems on the ontological status of deity.’ – Professor Ronald Hepburn, Edinburgh University ‘It is provocative…Reviews“I am sure it will add greatly to understanding the thought of Iqbal.” – Professor Abdus Salam, F.R.S., Nobel Laureate“The book is well written and cogently argued…I am sure that a sound but critical study like this could do a great deal to provoke thought about Iqbal and similar writers.” – Professor Geoffrey Parrinder, University of London“… (the) analysis of the connections between Iqbal’s thought and that of the great Western thinkers like Hegel is new and suggestive.” – Professor Jacques Berque, College de FranceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction and summaryPART I: Iqbal and the western traditionPART II: Iqbal and the Muslim traditionPART III beyond Iqbal: The nature of the problem of godNotesBibliographyIndexAuthor BiographyDr Salman Raschid is a retired British psychiatrist. He is also an academic scholar, having studied History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge and taken a research degree in Philosophy of Religion at King’s College, London. He subsequently held research appointments at Edinburgh (Post-doctoral Fellow) and at Harvard (Visiting Scholar in the Philosophy Department, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of World Religions). Dr Raschid was invited to join the US-based Husserl Circle in 1975. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (Philosophy Special Interest Group) appointed him as the Convener of the R.D. Laing Conference in 1998/9. Following a nomination by Professor Francis Robinson (in 2007/8) he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society. Dr Raschid is currently working on a book entitled Ghazali’s Concept of God, commissioned by his previous publishers.