Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Author)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition.
John E. Drabinski (Foreword By)
John E. Drabinski is Charles Hamilton Houston 1915 Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.
Lindsay Turner (Translator)
Lindsay Turner is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition.

Foreword: Locating the Postcolonial Idea | vii
John E. Drabinski
Introduction | 1
1 Bergsonism in the Thought of Léopold Sédar Senghor | 21
2 Senghor¿s African Socialism | 37
3 Bergson, Iqbal, and the Concept of Ijtihad | 57
4 Time and Fatalism: Iqbal on Islamic Fatalism | 77
Conclusion | 95
Acknowledgments | 99
Notes | 101
Index | 117