IQBALOVA REINTERPRETACIJA SUFIJSKE MISLI
IQBAL’S RE-STATEMENT OF SUFI THOUGHT
Author(s): Muhammad Suheyl UmarSubject(s): Islam studies, Philosophy of Middle Ages, Contemporary Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Middle-East Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Contemporary Islamic Thought
Published by: Fakultet islamskih nauka u Sarajevu
Keywords: Rumi; Iqbal Lahori Irfan; Muhammad Suheyl Umar; Sufi poetry; sufism; Islam; Sufism; pantheism; recovery; culture; criticism; tradition; Modernism; India; Pakistan; East; West;
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents Iqbal’s understanding of Sufi thought and his critique of it. For Rumi Sufism was a spiritual calling and system of recovery from illness and social deviation of his time. For Iqbal Sufism phenomenon is a foreign thing implemented in the teachings of Islam and nurtured in the lap of Persian culture. His critique of Sufism is not a sign of hostility, but only a response to the adopted theory and practice which is manifested in India and is attributed to the influence of pantheistic schools of thought as well as the influence of Persian thought. Iqbal’s criticism of the process of decadence and deviation was not guided only by Sufism, but the entire spectrum of Islamic civilization to rejuvenate the non-Arab Islamic world, which was hovering between hope and despair. The author of this paper argues that Sufism for Iqbal was a system of “repairs, means for correcting” the disease of modern society and deviations, including the criticism of some decadent aspects of Sufism.
Journal: Zbornik radova Fakulteta islamskih nauka u Sarajevu
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 249-296
- Page Count: 48
- Language: Bosnian