Urdu · proper noun · Mind & Knowledge

Renan

रेनान

said re-NAAN

also written: renan, ernest renan, ernest renaun

Meaning

Ernest Renan (1823-1892), French Orientalist whose nationalist definition of the nation Iqbal critiqued; representative of the European territorial idea of nationhood that Iqbal opposed.

Related words

ARABIC

Qaumiyat

Nationality or national identity.

PERSIAN

Watanparasti

Patriotism or devotion to one's homeland.

URDU

Renaissance

The European Renaissance; the rebirth of art and learning that launched the modern West. Iqbal pointed to it as he called for a parallel intellectual reawakening within Islam.

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