Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Iqbal's 1930-34 foundational text — reconstruction of Islamic religious thought in light of modern science and philosophy
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Plural |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
1928-29 lectures; 1930 first edition; 1934 expanded second edition with seventh lecture. Iqbal was 51-57 across this period.
Space
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Lahore (Iqbal's residence) and the lecture venues (Madras, Hyderabad, Aligarh). The intellectual space is late-colonial Indian Muslim intellectual life, with both Indian-nationalist and Muslim-separatist currents.
Matter
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Six (then seven) lecture-derived book. Form is sustained philosophical-religious essay, each lecture treating one major topic.
Observer
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Mature Iqbal. The observer-philosopher is the established Urdu and Persian poet, the doctoral graduate of Cambridge and Munich, the President of the All-India Muslim League (which he would assume in 1930), the principal philosophical-political voice of inter-war Indian Muslim modernism.
Energy
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Major-philosophical-systematic energies. The book is the most ambitious twentieth-century philosophical reconstruction of Islamic religious thought in dialogue with modern Western philosophy.
Information
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Single substantial book of seven lectures. The treatment of khudi (selfhood) in Lecture IV is the philosophical-conceptual heart; Lecture VI on ijtihad has been continuously cited in subsequent Islamic-reformist thought.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Iqbal's major philosophical work and the principal twentieth-century philosophical articulation of modernist Islamic thought. The conceptual basis for the political-philosophical project that would lead to the 1930 Allahabad address and eventually to the 1947 creation of Pakistan; continuously read in subsequent Islamic-philosophical-modernist literature (Fazlur Rahman, Mohammed Arkoun, Tariq Ramadan).