Conscious evolution
By participating in the life of our communal self consciously, we can achieve a society free from want and fear.
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“Javid Nama”
Javid Nama (1932)
by Iqbal Download PDF of first edition in Persian Download abridged illustrated translation in English by Hina Tanvir (illustrations by Tabassum Khalid), edited by Khurram Ali Shafique & M. Suheyl Umar Link for downloading PDF of English translation by A. J. Arberry and B. A. Dar
Marghdeen: complete description from Javid Nama
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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Iqbal, Mary Parker Follett and C. R. Das
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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Multiple intelligences according to Iqbal
Iqbal Review, Volume 52, Number 2, 4. April, October 2011, pp.123-130 The following paper was submitted in December 2010 but has come out only recently in 2018 in a backdated issue of the journal. The ‘Abstract’ that appears in the journal was not written by me and I am not including it here – 25
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Iqbal in the mind of Europe
Iqbal Review, Volume 51, Number 2, 4. April, October 2010, pp.29-59 The following is part of a document submitted to Iqbal Academy Pakistan in March 2008 for publication as a small book, Iqbal in the Mind of Europe – an overview of the Western interpretations of Iqbal. It was supposed to undergo some further improvement
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New discoveries about the Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Iqbal Review, Volume 48, Number 2, April 2007, pp.36-57 The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam is seen as a problematic writing of Iqbal. The reason may be that although much has been written about the book, it has never been subjected to a linguistic analysis. That is what I intend to do in this
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The Reconstruction as a commentary on Javid Nama
Iqbal Review, Volume 47, Number 4, October 2006, pp.42-45 The article offers a few observations on the relationship between two major works of Iqbal The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930/34) and Javid Nama (1932) and explores the question as to whether Iqbal meant the Reconstruction to be a form of commentary on his
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Iqbal’s Relevance Today
Dawn Books & Authors, 9 November, 2003 Let’s be honest about this. A reference to Iqbal often generates sneers or boredom. So much for 56 years of celebrating Iqbal as the national poet — and celebrating him to death! Let’s approach the question with a fresh start: is he relevant today? Are his works worth
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