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Hamza Qureshi

Fellow · Member since September 2025

Advocate at the Lahore High Court. I read Iqbal and Hart side by side and want to know what law owes to philosophy and the other way round.

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Is human dignity a religious idea that secular law borrowed?

Discussion Hamza Qureshi
Rights & liberty Islamic Modern European Immanuel Kant #human-dignity #human-rights

Last reply Henrike Vogel

1reply

14h
Does a constitution need a shared conception of the good?

Question Hamza Qureshi
Power & the state #constitutionalism #liberalism

Open question

3replies

12d
Hart’s “internal point of view”, seen from a courtroom in Lahore

Discussion Hamza Qureshi
Law Analytic #legal-positivism #rule-of-recognition

Last reply Hamza Qureshi

3replies

25d
What is ijtihad, and why did Iqbal call it the principle of movement in Islam?

Question Hamza Qureshi
Law Islamic Muhammad Iqbal #ijtihad #islamic-law

✓ Answered

3replies

Aug 2026
An unjust law is not really law: legal positivism is mistaken

Debate Hamza Qureshi
Law Analytic #legal-positivism #natural-law

For 3Against 2

6replies

Aug 2026
Iqbal’s khudi and Nietzsche’s Übermensch: influence or polemic?

Discussion Hamza Qureshi
Personal identity Islamic Modern European Friedrich Nietzsche Muhammad Iqbal #khudi #selfhood

Last reply Hamza Qureshi

4replies

Aug 2026
Reading group: Iqbal’s Reconstruction, Lecture I (“Knowledge and Religious Experience”)

Reading Group Hamza Qureshi
Faith & reason Islamic Muhammad Iqbal #iqbal #religious-experience

Last reply Sana Mir

5replies

Jul 2026