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The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India Iqbal Singh Sevea Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00886-1 - The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India Iqbal Singh Sevea Index More information Index Acton, Lord, 183, 183n100 on Pan-Islamism, 205–206 opposition to nationalism, 131 on political participation of Muslims, 21 adab, 177 on the resumption of waqf by the Afghanistan, 172 colonial state, 51 Aga Khan, 121, 149, 190, 192 Ali, Chaudhari Rahmat, 36, 36n3, 197, debate with Lajpat Rai, 190 207. See also Continent of Dinia Aghnides, Nicolas Prodromou, 68 Pak Plan Ahl-i-Hadith, 5, 6 adoption of modern political Ahl-i-Sunnat wa Jamaat. see Barelwi categories, 136 Ahmad, Aziz, 25, 35n2, 38n17, 62n3 on nationhood, 136 Ahmad, Basheer, 135 on the need for nation-states, 196 Ahmad, Imtiaz, 39 position in the Pakistan narrative, 208 Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam, 6, 7, 124, 125 Ali, Chiragh, 4, 4n9, 8, 52, 54, 55, 56, 134, Ahmadiyya, 5, 24, 69 141, 205 accusations of British patronage for, 169 no Islamic socio-political structure, 59, emergence of movement, 6–7 132–133 Iqbal’s critique of, 95, 120–125, 149, Ali, Jamaat, 90 171–172 Ali, Maulvi Muhammad, 53, 61 Iqbal’s equation of Ahmadiyya with Ali, Muhammad, 11, 61 acceptance of nationalism, 138–139 on Iqbal’s revolutionary poetry, 200 Lahore faction, 7, 53 Islam and Christianity, 116 opposition to, 7, 7n20, 24n86 on Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s interpretation Qadian faction, 7, 121 of Islam, 101 Ahmed, Ghulam, 53 Ali, Riza, 80 Ajmal, 190 Ali, Shaukat, 11, 61 Akbar, 167, 168 alienation: lack of vision/knowledge of the akhlaqi literature, 43, 44 self, 81–84, 166–172, 176–177 Ali, Abdullah Yusuf, 56, 60 Aligarh, Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental Ali, Ameer, 21, 21n75, 51, 54, 56, 57, 58, College, 8, 18, 19, 45, 62, 73, 99, 100, 128, 134 147, 173, 175, 176 defining ‘Muslim’, 69 aims, 174 exchange with Badruddin Tyabji, 67 Iqbal’s critique of, 80–81, 177–178 on impact of British rule on Muslims, 70 Aligarh Scientific Society, 7, 46 227 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00886-1 - The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India Iqbal Singh Sevea Index More information 228 Index All-India Kashmir Committee, 14, 17 ba’ya, 6, 55, 55n95 All-India Khilafat Committee, 11, 190 Babur, 167 All-India Muslim Conference, 29, 181, 182 Bacon, Francis, 47 Iqbal’s 1932 Presidential Address, 126, Baha’ism, 121, 122 172, 188 Bal-i-Jibril, 23, 83 All-India Muslim League, 10, 12, 14, Bandagi Nama, 80 29, 38, 48, 91, 149, 165, 181, 182, Bang-i-Dara, 23 190, 209 Barelwi, 5, 6 British Committee of the All-India Bari, Abdul, 12, 48 Muslim League, 21 Bashiruddin, 54, 57 Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address, 14, Bavaria: as a model for federal 30, 160, 162, 182–183, 188 states, 190, 192 position on Statutory Commission, 185 bekhudi, 28, 29, 110 relations with the Congress, 11, 14, Bengal, 8, 70, 152, 182, 184, 185 37, 184 Bergson, Henri-Louis, 123 All-India Nationalist Muslim Party, 181 bida, 6, 58 Allah, Haji Shariat, 8 bildung, 177 Allahabad University, 19, 21 Buddhism, 33, 94, 110 Allahabadi, Akbar, 108, 108n68 Bukhsh, Salahuddin Khuda, 2, 2n4, 39, 58 Ambala, 194, 195 Burney, Sayyid Muzaffar Hussein, 26 American Presbyterian Church, 22 Anderson, Benedict, 42, 43 caliph, 4, 11, 61 Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam, 14, 22, 100 caliphate, 44, 50, 51, 164 Anjuman-i-Islam, 20 Chaldean religions, 110 Anjuman-i-Khuddam-i-Kaaba, 11 Chatterjee, Partha, 43, 83, 133 Anjuman-i-Punjab, 75, 75n59, 175 Chirol, Valentine, 101 Anjuman Kashmiri Musalmanan, 17 Christianity, 110, 132. See also Friedrich Ansari, Mukhtar Ahmed, 14, 181, Nietzsche: critique of Christianity 186, 187 public-private dichotomy in, 115, Antlov, Hans, 42 141–142, 144, 145, 147 Aristotle, 111 colonialism: as a totalitarian exercise Armughan-i-Hijaz, 23 of power, 63, 80, 81–82, 92, 117, Arnold, Matthew, 77, 102, 104 127, 200 Arnold, Thomas Walker, 19, 178 impact of the colonial state, 49 Arya Samaj, 22, 190 Muslim responses to the colonial state, Asad, Talal, 96n7, 101 3–12, 66–73 Asar-i Jadid, 45 communism, 57, 117 ashraf, ix, 38 as a basis for socio-political Ashraf, K. M., 196 organisation, 118–119 Asrar-al-Sanadid, 152 as a weapon against colonising powers, Asrar-i-Khudi, 23, 29, 108 117–118, 203 development of the individual and Comrade, 12, 206 society, 140–141 Confederacy of India. 192, 193n141 Aurangzeb, 167, 168 Connor, Walker, 127 Azad, Abul Kalam, 22, 22n79, 48, 50, Continent of Dinia, 196 92, 181 Corbett, Geoffrey, 195 Islamic response to democracy and Covenant of Medina, 157, 158 socialism, 118 portrayal as a Muslim nationalist. dar-ul-aman, 9 26–27, 27n96 dar-ul-harb, 8, 9, 50 Azad, Muhammad Hussain, 75, 75n59, 76 Dar-ul-Ishaat Hind, 48, 61 al-Azhar, 179 dar-ul-Islam, 8, 9, 49, 50 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00886-1 - The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India Iqbal Singh Sevea Index More information Index 229 dar-ul-zimma, 9 al-Ghazzali, Muhammad, 47, dars-i-nizami, 5, 173 53, 106 Delhi Urdu Akhbar, 44 Ghulam-us-Saqlain, 45, 47 Deoband, 65, 73, 134 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 20, 77, Department of Ifta, 48n68 104, 177 emergence of madrasa and Government College, 19, 21 movement, 6 Gramsci, Antonio, 13, 63 Iqbal’s critique of education on ideological hegemony, 63 provided, 178 shaping an Islamic education, 173 hadith, 6, 49, 91, 155, 159 ulama grappling with new political debate over authenticity of, 53–54, structures, 134–135 204–205 derivative discourse, 3, 54, 136 methodology, 6 dhimmi, ix, 37 socio-political prescriptions, 49, 53, din, 41, 125, 148, 156, 157, 196 54, 158 Din-i-Ilahi, 168 study of, 4–5, 173 Durrani, F. K. K., 136, 137 Hafiz, 140. See also Sufism Haiy, Abdul, 8 East India Company, 3 Hali, Khwaja Altaf Hussain, 73, 73n52, education. See also Ali, Riza; Aligarh; 74, 78 Deoband; dars-i-nizami; Farangi shaping a reformed Urdu Mahal; Nadwatul Ulama; Sayyid literature, 75 Ahmad Khan Halqa-i-Mashaikh, 107 Iqbal on womens’, 180–181 Hamdard, 12 Muslim responses to modern education, Hanafis, 5, 6, 8 71–73, 72n47 Harris, Moinuddin, 189 shaping a Muslim character through, Hasan, Mehmood, 81, 176 172–181 Hasan, Mir, 18, 19, 121 Ehsaan, 157, 158 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 20, 83, Eickelman, Dale, 39 118, 143, 149, 150, 167, 206 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 77 Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 42, Enayat, Hamid, 43 166, 177 Engels, Friedrich, 102 al-Hidaya, 67 Hindu Mahasabha, 187 Faiz, Faiz Ahmad, 24n85 Hobbes, Thomas, 47 Fanon, Frantz, 63, 79, 81, 197, 198, 202 Hughes, Thomas Patrick, 40 al-Farabi, Abu Nasr, 47, 53 Hunter, William Wilson, 69, 70 Faraizi movement, 8 huriyyat, 56, 56n98 Farangi Mahal, 8, 12. See also Bari, Hussain, Haji Hakim Nadir, 61 Abdul Hussain, Riaz, 26 Iqbal’s critique of type of education Hussain, Wahed, 60 provided, 178 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 41 Ibn al-Mawardi, Abu al-Hasan Ali, 56 fiqh, 9, 88, 148 Ibn Arabi. See also Sufism socio-political prescriptions, 49 wahdat-al-wujud, 108 study of, 5, 173 Ibn Khaldun, 123 Foucault, Michel, 101 Ibn Rushd, 54 French Revolution, 45 Ibn Taymiyya, 106 Fyzee, Asaf Ali Asghar, 60 ideology: conceptions of, 113–114 Islam as an, 112–120, 113n94, 133–134, Geertz, Clifford, 113 138–139, 145–146 Gellner, Ernest, 41 ijma, 38, 38n17 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00886-1 - The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India Iqbal Singh Sevea Index More information 230 Index ijtihad, 88, 100, 123, 148, 205 Joint Committee on Indian Constitution modern Muslim intellectuals and, 12, 86 Reform, 186, 187 ulama disputing the right to practise Judaism, 110, 115. See also Spinoza, ijtihad, 88–90, 95 Baruch de Ilm-o-Iqthisad, 23 Jewish community Imam Ali, 35 Jung, Nawab Nizamat, 98 India Councils Act of 1909, 13, 67 al-Jurjani, Ali ibn Muhammad, 41 Indian Association, 175 Indian Councils Act of 1861, 9 kalam, 7, 178, 179 Indian National Congress, 9, 26, 67, 154, Kant, Immanuel, 41, 172 165, 184, 187, 190. See also All-India Karim, Faizul, 51 Muslim League Kedourie, Elie, 41, 42 Lucknow Pact Keith, Arthur, 130, 130n18 on separate electorates, 184 Khaksar movement, 89n129 Indian Patriotic Association, 152 Khamenei, Ali, 201 Indonesia, 25 Khan, Abdul Majid, 197 Iran, 62, 201 Khan, Aftab Ahmad, 45 Iranian Revolution, 119, 201 Khan, Hafiz Nazir Ahmad, 100 Islam, Kazi Anwarul, 209 Khan, Sayyid Ahmad, 19, 45, 46, 55, 65, Islamia College, 22 72, 95, 98, 101, 128, 134, 177 Islamists, 25, 62, 113n94, 119, 200, 201 on the causes of the mutiny, 9 Ismailis, 121, 149 critiquing the ulama, 86–87 Ittihad-i-Millat Party, 182 debate with Mohsin-ul-Mulk, 87, 99 educational reform, 72, 79–80, jadidiyyat writers, 76 173–175 Jahangir, 167 exchange with Badruddin Tyabji, 67 Jalil-ur-Rahman, Muhammad, 49 on the extension of the elective Jamaat-e-Islami, 25, 203 principle, 10 Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, 37n9 on political participation, 21, 52 Jamia Millia Islamia, 189, 189n131 portrayal as a Muslim separatist, al-Jamiyyat, 135, 154 24–25, 35 Jamiyyat-i-Ulama-i-Hind, 60, 154, 181, rationalist interpretation of Islam, 190, 197 86–87, 98–100, 205 aims, 12 response to colonial context, 7–8 on nationalism and Islam, 135 shaping a reformed Urdu literature, opposition to the Muslim League.
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