Preface: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam By Dr. Muhammad Iqbal

Preface: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam By Dr. Muhammad Iqbal

By Dr. Muhammad Iqbal

They are perpetuating methods which were created for generations possessing a cultural outlook differing, in important respects, from our own. ‘Your creation and resurrection,’ says the Qur’an, ‘are like the creation and resurrection of a single soul.’ A living experience of the kind of biological unity, embodied in this verse, requires today a method physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. In the absence of such a method the demand for a scientific form of religious knowledge is only natural.

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