Note on the project Critique of Iqbaliat and Other Myths

Allama Iqbal's first lecture, "Knowledge and Religious Experience", from the compiled 6 lectures "Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam", reveals several sides of the man.  The next series of blogs would primarily be an attempt to critique what is known as the man's philosophy based on these lectures.  All authors who make these critiques should also be presented with counter-arguments so that a debate can occur.  Allama Iqbal, more than anyone else needs to be scrutinized instead of turned into a holy cow - although the rest of the world refuses to give his philosophy any credit.  However, the objective should be to press the debate, the ideas and quest for knowledge forward rather than accept the pungent stagnancy that now defines Iqbaliat.