Consider the work of Sir Mohammad Iqbal,
with reference to his idea of the Islamic community.
Mohammad Iqbal was widely known as poet, philosopher, lawyer, jurist and spiritual Godfather of Pakistan. He was the founder of Muslim politics in the Indian subcontinent. Iqbal created an ideological platform for Muslim national movement in India and created conceptual base for creation of Pakistan. Iqbal received his higher education in Europe, from where he struggled to harmonise western philosophies with Islamic culture and beliefs. He studied philosophy in Cambridge and took a doctorate in Munich His political view was that in theory a Muslim state wasn't desirable, as he held to the ideal of a world-wide Muslim community; nevertheless, he held that, at least in the short and medium terms, the only way for Indian Muslims to be able to live according to the tenets of Islam was in such a state, and he campaigned accordingly. Iqbal's philosophical work involves bringing various philosophical influences, including Liebniz, Hegel, and Nietzsche, to his Islamic scholarship, thus holding out the promise of a revival of genuine Islamic philosophical thought ? a return of Islam to its place in the philosophical world.
His philosophical position was articulated in The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1958), a volume based on six lectures delivered at Madras, Hyderabad, and Aligarh in 1928-29. He argued that a rightly focused man should unceasingly generate vitality through interaction with the purposes of the living God. The Prophet Muhammad had returned from his unitary experience of God to let loose on the earth a new type of manhood and a cultural world characterised by the abolition of priesthood and hereditary kingship and by an emphasis on the study ...