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Muhammad Iqbal. Essays on the Reconstruction of Modern Muslim Thought, edited by Chad Hillier &#38; Basit Bilal Koshul, Edinburgh University Press, 2015.Examines the ideas central to Muhammad Iqbal’s thought and life: religion, science, metaphysics and nationalismThere are few moments in human history where the forces of religion, culture and politics converge to produce some of the most significant philosophical ideas in the world. India in the early 20th century saw one of these moments with the rise of activist-thinkers like Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi, individuals who not only liberated human lives but their minds as well. One of most influential members of that group was the poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. Commonly known as the 'spiritual father of Pakistan', the philosophical and political ideas of Iqbal not only shaped the face of Indian Muslim nationalism but also the direction of modernist reformist Islam around the world.New developments in research on Iqbal’s thought are collected here, coming from a range of prominent and emerging voices from political science, philosophy and religious studies. They offer new and novel examinations of the ideas that lie at the heart of Iqbal’s own thought: religion, science, metaphysics, nationalism and religious identity. Readers will (re)discover many new connections between the 'Sage of the Ummah' and the greatest thinkers and ideas of European and Islamic philosophies.Key Features Responds to the renewed interest in Iqbal by developing new interpretations and understandings Provides an examination of ideas central to Iqbal's thought including the connection between religious belief and modern knowledge, the expression of Islamic belief through modern concepts, the political dimension of Muslim identity Explores the links between Iqbal and other European philosophers who were his contemporaries including Bergson, Pierce, and WhiteheadContributors Riffat Hassan, University of Louisville Ebrahim Moosa, University of Notre Dame Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University Basit Bilal Koshul, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Richard Gilmore, Concordia College Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter Christopher Scott McClure, Harvard University H. C. Hillier, Wilfrid Laurier University Dayne E. Nix, Naval War CollegeH. C. Hillier is a Lecturer in the Department of Society, Culture and Environment at Wilfrid Laurier University. A graduate of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, he specializes in global cultures, religions and political philosophy. He has published in the Journal of Islamic Law &#38; Culture and Journal of Islamic Philosophy, and is the co-author of the forthcoming Introduction to Islamic Thought (Wipf &#38; Stock, 2015).Basit Bilal Koshul is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He is the author of The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber's Legacy: Disenchanting Disenchantment (Palgrave, 2005). He has also co-edited, with Steven Kepnel, a collection of essays Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter: Studying the Other, Understanding the Self (Palgrave, 2007) and, with Chad Hillier, Muhammad Iqbal: Essays on the Reconstruction of Modern Muslim Thought (Edinburgh UP, 2015).﻿