Allama Iqbal's The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

Religious experience is a source of knowledge, says this philosopher. But it must be critically examined!

"The facts of religious ex­perience are facts among other facts of human experience and, in the capacity of yielding knowledge by interpretation, one fact is as good as another."

Philosopher says stuff. About God. And knowledge.

A great Islamic philosopher tells us how to think about the physical world.

A great Islamic philosopher tells us what knowledge is.

A great Islamic philosopher tells us how we can know God, despite God's being infinite.

Short intro to a fascinating piece of Islamic philosophy.

Allama Iqbal tells us stuff about how to think. If you don't already know this, Iqbal is an influential 1900s Islamic philosopher of the Subcontinent (i.e., India and Pakistan, but before the separation of the two). He has one of the better philosophy mustaches, and he's the only great philosopher I can name who has an airport named after him, but there are better reasons to be familiar with his thought.

Does religion need reason even more than science does?

The first of a 34-video series exploring an important book in modern Islamic philosophy! ACTION is more important than mere IDEAS! And can traditional religion really get along with modern science????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!?????