Vision of Islamic political system in Allama Iqbal’s prose works on November 9, 2018Dr Sir Muhammad Iqbal (9th Nov 1877—21stApril 1938)—commonly known as Allama Iqbal—was a multi-dimensional personality: poet, philosopher, and a great political ideologist/ activist. He is regarded as one of the most distinguished and dominant figures of 20th century, globally, and in Pakistan he is admired as the ‘mussawir-e-Pakistan’, ‘mufakkir-e-Pakistan’, and ‘spiritual father of Pakistan’. For […]
A tribute to Allama Iqbal on his birth anniversary on November 9, 2017Muhammad Iqbal (9th November ’1877 — 21st April ’1938) — commonly known as Allama Iqbal — was a multi-dimensional personality: poet-philosopher, lawyer, Muslim reformer, great political ideologist/activist, outstanding man of letters, and one of the most distinguished and dominant figures of the 20th century. He is more famous, and is eminently known, as a poet […]
Religion and democracy on November 19, 2014In his historical survey Democracy in America (1831), Alexis de Tocqueville (the French political thinker and historian) discussed what he calls the “great political problem of our times”. The “organisation and the establishment of democracy in Christendom”, according to him, “is the great political problem of our times”. This almost two centuries old observation reminds […]