{"title":"3. Bergson, Iqbal, and the concept of Ijtihad","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823285853-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823285853-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172007,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Bergson","volume":"32 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125859962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"4. Time and fatalism: Iqbal on Islamic fatalism","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823285853-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823285853-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172007,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Bergson","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122920837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1. Bergsonism in the thought of Léopold Sédar Senghor","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823285853-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823285853-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172007,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Bergson","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115927500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Postcolonial BergsonPub Date : 2019-10-08DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823285839.003.0005
S. Diagne
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