192 Pages
by
Routledge India
192 Pages
by
Routledge India
192 Pages
by
Routledge India
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Bringing together Islamic studies, a postcolonial literary perspective, and a focus on the interaction between aesthetics and politics, this book analyses Iqbal’s Islamism through his poetry. It argues that his notion of an Islamist selfhood was expressed in his verse through the interplay between poetic tradition and creative innovation. It also considers how Iqbal expressed an Islamist... Read more
Glossary Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Broken Garden: Ruination and Iqbal's Political Aesthetic 2. Selfhood's Aesthetic 3. Khudi and Be-khudi: Selfhood and its Fluctuations 4. Pan-Islam, Race and Nationalism 5. The Aesthetic of Travel 6. Iqbal, Cosmopolitan Modernity and the Qu'ran 7. Islamic Hellenism, Selfhood and Poetry Conclusion Bibliography Index
Biography
Javed Majeed,
