Muhammad Iqbal. A Cosmopolitan Philosopher

Muhammad Iqbal, un filósofo cosmopolita / Muhammad Iqbal, a cosmopolite philosopher offers a philosophical reading of Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) as a thinker of the subcontinent’s plural inheritances. Against nationalist and reductive appropriations, the book situates him among the twilight generation of Guénon, Coomaraswamy, Jung and Zambrano, and argues that his “spiritual cosmopolitanism”, formed between Lahore and Cambridge, is the method of his thought. Its central contribution is a reinterpretation of khūdī as a dynamic tension of self-transcendence rather than a doctrine of assertive individualism. This is developed through a critical dialogue with Ibn al-ʿArabī, in which Iqbal recasts the insān al-kāmil as an ethics of striving. The study also treats poetry as a philosophical practice in its own right, with heart (dil) and imaginal faculty (khayāl) as organs of knowledge, and draws out from Iqbal’s metaphysics of nature an ecosophy suited to the present ecological crisis. The volume gives Spanish-language readers annotated translations from Iqbal’s Persian and Urdu corpus, including the Javīd Nāma, and offers a framework that links him to symbolic and archetypal hermeneutics.