The Hour: An Essay on Muhammad Iqbal’s Political Eschatology

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Despite Modernity’s and the Enlightenment’s project and their self-proclaimed aims – Freedom, Happiness, Equality –, the world has been living in Darkness: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports an unprecedented 123.2 million forcibly displaced people at the end of 2024, continuing a series of year-on-year increases for over a decade. Approximately 68.3 million people remain internally displaced within their own countries, while refugees account for about 43.4 million people. Over 473 million children—more than one in six globally—now live in areas affected by conflict, with the world experiencing the highest number of conflicts since World War II. The percentage of the world’s children living in conflict zones has doubled—from around 10 per cent in the 1990s to almost 19 per cent today.

When one sees the world around us and reflects on what has been happening for the last two and a half centuries, the only “scientific”, “rational” conclusion that one has to derive is that the answers to the current predicament must come from somewhere else. And this essay is precisely that, an essay of an answer. Drawing on Muhammad Iqbal’s (1877-1938) thought and work, this book explores and explains how we can effectively reach to a world where the sovereign is the human being, but a different kind of Sovereignty and Liberty, which could lead us to an end of History, at least the end of History which started in the mid-eighteenth century.

Paperback: 88 pages

Published: January 1st, 2026

ISNB: 979-8-9920194-7-6

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