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Muhammad Iqbal

South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician (1877–1938)

For other people named Muhammad Iqbal, see Muhammad Iqbal (disambiguation).

"Mohammad Iqbal" redirects here. Not to be confused with Iqbal Mohamed.

Sir
Allama

Muhammad Iqbal

Poet of the East

Iqbal in 1938

Born(1877-11-09)9 November 1877

Sialkot, Punjab, British India
(present-day Punjab, Pakistan)

Died21 April 1938(1938-04-21) (aged 60)

Lahore, Punjab, British India
(present-day Punjab, Pakistan)

Resting placeMazar-e-Iqbal, Lahore
NationalityBritish Indian
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Philosopher
  • author
  • politician
Notable workBang-e-Dara, Tarana-e-Milli, The Secrets of the Self, The Secrets of Selflessness, Message from the East, Persian Psalms, Javid Nama, Sare Jahan se Accha
OfficeMember of the Punjab Legislative Council (1927–1930)
Spouse(s)

Karim Bibi

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(m. 1893, separated)​

Sardar Begum

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(m. 1910; died 1935)
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by Luke Wilkinson

Know, then, ’tis the connecting thread of days
That stitches up thy life’s loose manuscript;
This selfsame thread sews us a shirt to wear,
Its needle the remembrance of old yarns. [. . .]
Thy present thrusts its head up from the past,
And from thy present shall thy future stem.
If thou desirest everlasting life,
Break not the thread between the past andnow
And the far future. What is life? A wave
Of consciousness of continuity,
A gurgling wine that flames the revellers.

—Muhammad Iqbal, Rumuz-i Bekhudi (1918)

Temporality and eternality, history and philosophy, mysticism and theology—there are many dialectical couplets that Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) weaves together in these few lines of Persian verse. This may seem surprising to many who have heard Iqbal’s name, which is frequently followed by the title of “father of Pakistan.” Iqbal, however, is also known among many Muslims in South Asia and Iran for his Urdu and Persian poetry and in certain corridors of the English-speaking academy has been regarded as a philosopher in his ow

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Mohammad Iqbal

There are over 800 secondary works on Iqbal. Below we have included a selection of those: 

Abbas, Syed Ghulam, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal: The Humanist: A Reassesment of the Poetry and Personality of the Poet-Philosopher of the East (Lahore: Iqbal Academy, 1997) 

Ahmad, Absar, Concept of Self and Self-Identity in Contemporary Philosophy: An Affirmation of Iqbal's Doctrine (Lahore: Iqbal Academy Pakistan, 1986)

Ahmad, Aziz, Islamic Modernism in India and Pakistan, 1857-1964 (London: Oxford University Press, 1967)

Ahmad, Doris, Iqbal as I Knew Him (Lahore: Iqbal Academy Pakistan, 1986)

Ahmad, S. Aasan, Iqbal: His Political Ideas at the Crossroads: A Commentary on Unpublished Letters to Professor Thompson with Photographic Reproductions of the Original Letters (Aligarh: Print vol Publications, 1979)

Ahsan, A. Shakoor, An Appeciation of Iqbal's Thought and Art (Lahore: Research Society of Pakistan, University of the Punjab, 1985)

Ali, Parveen Shaukat, The Political Philosophy of Iqbal (Lahore: Publishers United, 1970)

Aqeel, Moinuddin, Iqbal: From Finite

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