Politics and religion in Iqbal’s poetry

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Abstract

With a pathological approach to the world politics in 20th century, Iqbal considers two types of politics: prophetic politics and Pharaonic politics. Pharaonic politics tries to destroy lives and the world, subjugate people, and replace virtues with knaveries, while the prophetic politics is after mending lives and the world, exonerating people from intellectual and political subjugation and replacing knaveries with virtues. The paper studies these dimensions of Iqbal’s thought.

Keywords