Islamic Modernity and the Desiring Self
Muhammad Iqbal and the Poetics of Narcissism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12044849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yaseen Noorani (0000-0002-6178-8618, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Pages | 123-123 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iran (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0578-6967 • E-ISSN: 2396-9202 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4300588 |
| OpenAlex | W91046923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Indian Muslim poet and religious thinker Muhammad Iqbal (c. 1876-1938) provides the most extensive and fully realised vision of an alternative, Islamic version of modernity that has yet appeared. His critique of Enlightenment rationality, and particularly his cogent linkage of it with Imperialism, anticipates an important line of post-War thinking. Above all, his apparent success in casting modern European civilisation as a dead-end offshoot of the authentic modernity engendered by Islam has earned him great admiration throughout the Muslim world, leaving aside the Indian subcontinent, where he has become an institution of Muslim culture. Iqbal's achievement goes beyond the mere dressing of a pre-existing conception of modernity in Islamic garb. In the manner of European Romantic and Modernist writers, he was able to generate a critique of Europe's rationalist and capitalist social order out of a distinctive figuration of the human condition. Like his European counterparts, from whom he learned a great deal, Iqbal founded his alternative version of modernity on the poetic representation of an ideal modern self characterised by its fundamentally aesthetic or creative mode of being rather than by any capacity for ratiocination. He derived this representation, however, not from the Romantic artist or hero of
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Islam · Literature · Modernity · Narcissism · Poetics · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |