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The book broadly surveys the social
thought of the Greek, medieval and modern social philosophers
and identifies the common feature of an ideal society with those
of the Muslim ideal society established by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
at Medina.
In that context it endeavours to
analyze Iqbal's thesis of human Ego being the most vital and
enduring unit of social structure that could possibly help
rejuvenate stagnant contemporary Muslim societies. Consequently,
education and development of Ego is seen to play a pivotal role
in laying the foundation on which an ideal Muslim society with
updated classical Muslim institutions through
Ijtehad could possible be
eracted.
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M. Ashraf
Choudhri is a retired
Brigadier who has been a visiting professor at the Quaid-i-Azam
University, SZABIST and a Consultant at the Allama Iqbal Open
University, Islamabad. He holds Masters degrees in Political
Science and International Relations and a Ph.D. in Philosophy
with special focus on the philosophy of Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
Born at Ludhiana (India) in 1930, he
joined Pakistan Army in 1950 and retired as a Brigadier in 1982.
He has served as Defence and Army Attache in the Embassy of
Pakistan, USA and as a Joint Secretary in the Federal
Government.
He is author of
The Muslim Ummah and Iqbal
(also translated in Urdu), Pakistan
Movement and Iqbal, and
Iqbal Kay Hamrah(Urdu) that won
the National Book Foundation Presidential Award for the year
2001-2.
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