“Since 1955, the year of the first edition, the religious thought of Islam has known a dynamic impetus which no one, with the exception of Mohammad Iqbal himself, could foresee with such clarity. In forty years, the Islamic world has awakened, affirmed, agitated. Many Muslim countries have achieved political independence. Emergence, rebirth, expansion: Islamic ideology has acquired new vigor and has diversified into multiple currents of thought, circulating between tradition and modernity, between rigor and tolerance, between fundamentalism and extremism.

The issue raised by Mohammed Iqbal, who in his time already invited modern Muslims to “rethink the whole system of Islam without breaking with the past”, is today strikingly topical.

Reconstructing the religious thought of Islam marks an exceptional advance in Muslim thought in the West. An innovative message. »

Mohammed Iqbal, philosopher, poet and visionary, was in 1930 the designer of the Islamic State of Pakistan which was to see the light of day in 1947.

Preface by Francis Lamand

Preface to the first French edition of Louis Massignon.