Words of Witness: Divine Call and Human Response in Iqbal and Tagore

In Words of Witness, Hina Khalid offers a comparative exploration of the theologies of Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) and Rabindranath Tagore (d. 1941). From their vast writings spanning multiple languages, she draws attention to the striking conceptual resonances across their worldviews—particularly their metaphysics, anthropologies, and political philosophies. The book demonstrates how both poets envision the God–world relationship as one of a dynamic “call and response,” and thus situate the f...