Abstract

The present article subjects to a critical scrutiny the modern concept of religious experience and Iqbal’s appropriation of the same ’vis-Ã -vis’ traditional Sufi conception and perennialist metaphysical approach to it. His conception is analyzed in light of various modern critiques as well as traditional Sufi conception of the same. Iqbal’s experientialist argument for the existence of God -- in contradistinction to the Sufistic conception of the same -- is found vulnerable on both modern philosophical/scientific and traditional metaphysical critiques