Dr. Tahir Hameed Tanoli
He is author of 25 books which include 12 books on thought, philosophy and poetry of Allama Muhammad Iqbal. His research papers have been published in research journals of international repute. He frequently appears on different TV channels in different programs on contemporary, intellectual, academic and other issues. He also writes in national dailies regularly with the title of “Soz e Sukhn“. He has visited many countries and presented his research papers in international conferences. He is also member of Board of Advanced Studies of many national universities. He has written his Ph D dissertation on “Contemporary Civilizational Conflict and thought of Iqbal – Reasons, Impact and Solution” with the analysis of concept of Civilization of Samuel Huntington. He has done an extensive research work on application of spiritual methodologies on psychological issues. He is the author of Anxiety Management – Islamic & Western Perspective and From Divided to Concrete Self: A study in Religious Psychology.
He has vast research in Iqbal’s methodology of applying religious psychology. As Iqbal says that how prayer creates power and concreteness in human self is un-understandable for pure reason, but through its impact and consequences it brings forth. Because the act of prayer, though being like reflection is also a process of assimilation, and the assimilative process in the case of prayer draws itself closely together and thereby acquires a power unknown to pure thought’. In prayer, human self becomes conscious participator in the life of Concrete Self. In thought the mind observes and follows the working of Reality; in the act of prayer it gives up its career as a seeker of slow-footed universality and rises higher than thought to capture Reality itself with a view to become a conscious participator in its life. He has written that the vast possibilities and innumerable levels of human self, yet unexplored, are in dire need of an organized discipline of religious psychology, whose main outline can be found in the thought of Iqbal especially in Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. It may deal the unaddressed issues of human self, which are floating in the mess of confusion since last century. (Psychology and Education, 2021, 58(5), ISSN 1553-6939 p.2810)