No abstract available / RELIGIOUS STUDIES & ARABIC / MA (ARABIC)

Trained in the thought of the Western masters, Muhammed Aziz Lahbabi, like so many other Muslim intellectuals, tries to re-think Islam in the light of modern philosophies. As Emmanuel Mounier in Christian thought, so Lahbabi tries to formulate the fundamentals of a "Muslim personalism". To what degree is he able to free himself of the Christian and Western problematic and realize an authentic Muslim work?

No abstract available / RELIGIOUS STUDIES and ARABIC / MA (ARABIC)

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This thesis deals with the concept of the Perfect Man in the thought of both Ibn 'Arabi (560/1165-638/1240) and Iqbal (1877-1938). The concepts of these two figures are analytically compared by way of their views of wujud, the evolutionary process of human being, qada' and qadar, and the classifications of the Perfect Man. In Ibn 'Arabi's system, these concepts are based on wahdah al-wujud and, in Iqbal's system, on his philosophy of Khudi. Although Iqbal criticized many aspects of Ibn 'Arabi's thought, this thesis will show that their concepts of the Perfect Man are quite similar, and that Iqbal was influenced in a number of important ways by Ibn 'Arabi.

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