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TRACING COMMONALITIES: THE IDEALS OF ALLAMA MUHAMMAD IQBAL AND THE TRADITION OF PASHTUNWALI

Abstract

Allama Muhammad Iqbal has been one of the most prominent poet, scholar and Muslims revivalist of 20^th century. His remarkable accounts the “reconstruction of religious thoughts in Islam” and his voluminous poetry has a vivid message for the colonized Muslim world through the discourse created by the Eurocentric colonizers. His quest to regain the declining self esteem of the Muslim of the sub-continent ignited the metaphors stemmed in the oriental tradition. He puts his hopes in the Afghans, in most of his narrations he puts the Afghans character as protogonists. The reason being the values of egalitarian spirit, courage, bravery, hospitality and selflessness of the Afghans nurtured under the tradition of Pashtunwali. This paper takes a glance over the commonality in the Pashtun’s ways of living, and their unwritten constitution “Pashtunwali” and the ideals of Allam Muhammad Iqbal. The paper explores the changing patterns and value systems of Pashtunwali, particularly the brighter part of the tradition which has a counter willing power to reconstruct a society stemmed in the eastern/oriental values and principals.