Iqbal, Muhammad: - Sir Muhammad Iqbal Kt (Urdu: محمد اقبال; 9 November 1877 - 21 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose Poetry in the Urdu language is considered among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan.
He is also known as the Hakeem-ul-Ummat (The Sage of the Ummah.
After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he was named the national poet there.
Iqbal died in 1938.
In his 1930 presidential address at the League\'s annual meeting in Allahabad, he formulated a political framework for Muslims in British-ruled India.
Iqbal was elected to the Punjab Legislative Council in 1927 and held a number of positions in the All India Muslim League.
In Iran, where he is known as Iqbāl-e Lāhorī (Iqbal of Lahore), he is highly regarded for his Persian works.
Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilisation across the world, but in particular in South Asia; a series of lectures he delivered to this effect were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam.
He is best known for his poetic works, including Asrar-e-Khudi - after whose publication he was awarded a knighthood, Rumuz-e-Bekhudi, and the Bang-e-Dara.
After returning to Lahore in 1908, he established a law practice but concentrated on writing scholarly works on politics, economics, history, philosophy, and religion. in philosophy at the University of Munich. at Trinity College, Cambridge and was subsequently called to the bar at Lincoln\'s Inn, and then to Germany, where he received a Ph.
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In 1905, he left for further studies in Europe, first to England, where he completed a second B.
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Among the Urdu poems from this time that remain popular are Parinde ki faryad (A bird\'s prayer), an early meditation on animal rights, and Tarana-e-Hindi (The Song of India) a patriotic poem-both poems composed for children.
During this time, he wrote prolifically.
He taught Arabic at the Oriental College, Lahore from 1899 until 1903. at the Government College Lahore. and M.
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Born and raised in Sialkot, Punjab in an ethnic Kashmiri Muslim family, Iqbal completed his B.
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He is commonly referred to by the honorific Allama (from Persian: علامہ, romanized: ʿallāma, lit.
Iqbal, Muhammad: - Sir Muhammad Iqbal Kt (Urdu: محمد اقبال; 9 November 1877 - 21 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose Poetry in the Urdu language is considered among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan
