A Confluence Between Iqbal and Leibniz

It could be passionately argued that Metaphysics is the common property of mankind. Even in the postmodern era of the latest stage of modernity, profound and perennial questions pertaining to notions of God/Divinity, the Self, freedom, morality and theodicy still endure and continue to be posed. Each subjective query and the responses formulated to it comes to constitute philosophies, and there have been no shortage of outstanding intellectuals from either ‘East’ or ‘West’ in this regard. In A Confluence Between Iqbal and Leibniz: Self and Monad, M. Shabbir Ahsen, currently a permanent faculty member teaching philosophy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, boldly attempts to explore the neat parallels between two thinkers whose lifespans were divided apart from each other temporally by centuries: Muhammad Iqbal (1878-1938), the famous Indian Muslim Poet-Philosopher, and the renowned German Christian polymath and rationalist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716).