A Confluence Between Iqbal and Leibniz: Monads and Self

A Confluence Between Iqbal and Leibniz: Monads and Self explores the striking metaphysical parallels between two towering thinkers separated by centuries - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Muhammad Iqbal.

M. Shabbir Ahsen is a member of the core faculty at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) since 2004, Shabbir Ahsen teaches philosophy. His previous experience includes over ten years at the Department of Philosophy, University of Karachi (KU), including administrative responsibility for overseeing the department for more than three years. He was also elected to KU’s Senate, Academic Council, and Teachers’ Society. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Kentucky and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. The Pakistan Philosophical Congress (PPC) appointed him as president of its logic and metaphysics section in 2000, and he served on the executive council from 2002 to 2005. In addition to his research on Wittgenstein, he has contributed to the literature on Muhammad Iqbal. Wittgenstein, logic, the history of philosophy, and analytic philosophy are among his areas of concentration.