Iqbal

Rumsfeld is wondering where all the other bloggers are.  Did I miss something?  I realize that the class is no longer considered reading and writing intensive but hopefully it soon becomes blogging intensive. 

That being said, I spent alot of time this week reading Mir’s biography of Muhammad Iqbal.  This guy is pretty well rounded.  He has studied in both the Middle East and Europe while earning more degrees than Rumsfeld cares to count.  I also am really struck by Iqbal’s appreciation for his teachers/mentors.  Both Mir Hasan and Sir Thomas Arnold had a profound impact on the way in which Iqbal came to view the world.  Rumsfeld is a little upset however, that Iqbal came to write in such a intense, difficult word-laden and dense fashion.  Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam was quite the read.

On a final serious note, Iqbal is the latest in a series of Islamic scholars that Rumsfeld simply has not heard of prior to taking Emir Mozaffar’s class.  It is interesting to see how educational institutions present material through specific lenses while ignoring many other ‘lenses’.