Asrar-o-Rumooz (1923)
by Iqbal Download PDF Also available in PDF: Asrar-i-Khudi (1915), Rumooz-i-Bekhudi (1918)
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by Iqbal Download PDF Also available in PDF: Asrar-i-Khudi (1915), Rumooz-i-Bekhudi (1918)
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With so much talk about seeking greater harmony between Islam and the West in our times, perhaps we need to think again about a very strong bridge that has already been existing between the two cultures for the last three hundred years. Three hundred years ago, Europe was witnessing the great intellectual revolution that was
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Recently, I have been trying to show that the resolution adopted unanimously by the elected legislators of the All-India Muslim League on April 9, 1946, in Delhi, was the foundational document for Pakistan (and perhaps also the true basis of the political reality of South Asia as it exists today). There are two questions I
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The philosophy of Iqbal can be explained in nine simple points. They can all be extracted from three research papers he presented respectively in 1908, 1909 and 1911. His later work, including the more well-known Reconstruction is further development on these nine points. The points are as following. Universal Islam and the modern West share
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Here is a prose translation of Chapter 4, Javid Nama (1932), the epic poem of Iqbal in Persian. The chapter presented here comprises the complete description of Marghdeen, the ideal world of Iqbal. As I would like to explain elsewhere, it is possible to read this chapter as an allegory about a great positive
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In sync with the current of Iqbal’s thought was also the idea of ‘new democracy’, highlighted by such political thinkers as the American pioneer of management sciences, Mary Parker Follett and the great Bengali visionary Chittaranjan Das (C. R. Das). Follett denounced Western democracy as ‘old democracy’, which sustained itself through a dichotomy between the
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Pakistan was created by a political organization but the organization was unlike any other. It was a new type, the technical term for which was ‘group organization’ (although the term was never used by Iqbal or the Quaid, but both were familiar with it). It was believed that the country could only be maintained through
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Two years from now many of us will be celebrating the centenary of the first publication of The New State but it can easily turn into the kind of thing the author despised so much: talking about concepts without having any practical purpose in mind. Perhaps it can be helpful if we recall that
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Last updated 20 May 2023 The New State (1918) was a groundbreaking work from the American social scientist Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933), now recognized as a pioneer of management sciences. Excerpts from this work were quoted by the Bengali visionary C. R. Das in his presidential address at the annual session of the Indian National
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