Islamische Existenzialphilosophie, Muhammad Iqbal nietzscheanisch gelesen.

The author gives thanks to Dr. Hans Küng, Dr. Hermann Kandler, and myself (p. 509), stating that the publication, in German, of my thesis “A philosophical Approach to Islam” has prompted this study. The author takes apart Iqbal’s approach and linguistics and dismantles Nietzsche’s anti-Christian atheism, mysticism and (super-human) philosophical speculation. Of special interest is his chapter on “Nietzsche and Islam” (pp. 116–134), revealing a hidden mysticism that culminated in Nietzsche’s “Übermensch”-construction. Murtaza sees existentialism not as a philosophy of being but of becoming, this being in line with Kierkegaard, Bergson, Sartre, and Grassi (p. 13). Strangely, atheist Nietzsche did inspire theist Iqbal. No wonder: at that time Nietzsche was considered “the philosopher of the hour” (p. 23). But Iqbal was also inspired by al-Hallaj, Ibn [Arabi, Rumi, Goethe, and Bergson (p. 21).