Towards a Final Combination - Muhammad Iqbal’s Philosophy of History

This paper, using Muhammad Iqbal‟s works, especially The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, deals with the question of History in his thought. According to Iqbal‟s interpretation of the Qur‟an, History, or in the Qur‟anic language “the days of God”, was one of the sources of human knowledge, with one of the most essential teachings of the Qur‟an being that nations are collectively judged, and suffer for their misdeeds, here and now. A special attention is also paid to his conceptions of Time and historical time, particularly how he actually distinguished “the past” from “the present” and “the future”, and how Human Beings acted through Time and, hence, in History, leading us to a Philosophy of History.

Keywords: Time; Philosophy of History; Islam; Historical Theology.