The Reconstruction of
Religious Thought in Islam,
[A5] Paperback - 242 pages,
by Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
Description :
One of the great thinkers of this century, in this ground-breaking work, attempts to show a path back to the scientific and intellectual striving that Muslims once excelled in.
Refuting the current methods of teaching as being from a generation of a cultural outlook different than that facing the modern mind, Iqbal calls for a reconstruction of Shari'at, pointing to the fact that from the first to fourth century no less than nineteen schools of law appeared in Islam to meet the necessities of a growing civilization.
Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877 - 1938) was a Muslim Poet, philosopher and politician born in Sialkot, British India (now Pakistan), whose poetry in Urdu and Persian is considered to be among the greatest of the modern era. and whose vision of an independent state for the Muslims of British India was to inspire the creation of Pakistan.