Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: locating the postcolonial idea -- Introduction -- 1. Bergsonism in the thought of Léopold Sédar Senghor -- 2. Senghor's African socialism -- 3. Bergson, Iqbal, and the concept of Ijtihad -- 4. Time and fatalism: Iqbal on Islamic fatalism -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index