Abstract
Nicholas brought Ijtihad’s into Iqbal’s keen consideration that he wrote a
comprehensive essay which was read in the conference in Habibiya Hall Lahore and
subsequently published as a sixth lecture in RECONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS
THOUGHT IN ISLAM. ljtihad advocate movement which is the driving force of Islamic
ideology hence it was titled as The Principle of Movement ¡n the Structure of Islam
which was later translated in Urdu by Nazir Niazi. In this essay Iqbal treated especially
the early doctors of ljtihad as lbn-e- Taimyyah, Ibn-e- Rushd and Ghazali and initiated
his thought provoking discussion on the difference of opinion on Ijtihad at early
Abbasid’s time by Ash’arites and Mu’tazila and then to the ascetic Sufism. He
stressed upon the spirit of Ijtihad as a dire need for the muslims of modern times in
the light of the philosophy of western writers. In this essay the writer through lqbal’s
letters tried to expound his concept of ljtihad.
Dr Muhammad Sufyan Safi. (2015) The Principle of Movement in the Structure of Islam, DARYAFT, Volume 14, Issue 14.
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