Allama Iqbal's The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

Fascinating ideas.

Looking back, taking stock, agreeing, disagreeing, and trying to think.

It comes in three stages.

And why that includes religion!

Separation of church and state? This philosopher says we don't need it. Watch out: This isn't what you think it is at first! It's probably a lot closer to John Locke than we would have expected. (But that's a topic for another time.)

Don't lose sight of either if you wanna get the world right!

More from Allama Iqbal, major Islamic philosopher of the Subcontinent.

How do you test prophecies? "By their fruits ye shall know them."

An Islamic philosopher tells us how to think about the afterlife. (And there's nothing about playing harps on clouds.)

Major 1900s Muslim philosopher of the Subcontinent tells us why he thinks not all is matter.

What is free will, and do we have it? Hear a great philosopher's answers!

Equality in prayer creates equality in society.

Why would God let bad things happen?

The next attribute of God: Omnipotence!

The next attribute of God: Knowledge!

How should we think about God's eternity? Here's an Islamic philosopher from the Subcontinent with some answer!

God is infinitely creative, and this philosopher says stuff about that.

Muslim philosopher says God is one. Christian philosophy teacher tries to explain without getting muddled on the Trinity, gets muddled, and makes a clarification.

Philosophy is great. Prayer is better!

You can explain some things by studying matter. But not everything.

Science can only study sections of reality, according to this Islamic philosopher; religion aims to study the whole thing!

Matter ain't what we used to think it is.

"The Philosophical Test of the Revelations of Religious Experience."

So if religious beliefs come from experience, shouldn't we be able to test them? Yes. And we can. So says this one philosopher.

Some reflections on mystical experience by a great Islamic philosopher of India/Pakistan.