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, nationhood, nationalism.
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.