Sir muhammad iqbal biography definition
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Muhammad Iqbal
Allama Dr Muhammad Iqbal | |
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Allama Muhammad Iqbal | |
| Born | Muhammad Iqbal (1877-11-09)9 November 1877 Sialkot, Punjab Province, British India, |
| Died | 21 April 1938(1938-04-21) (aged 60) Lahore, Punjab, British India |
| Nationality | British Indian |
| Other names | Poet of the East شاعر مشرق |
| Alma mater | Scotch Mission College (F.A.) Government College(B.A., M.A.) University of Cambridge(B.A.) University of Munich(Ph.D.) |
| Notable work | The Secrets of the Self, The Secrets of Selflessness, Message from the East, Persian Psalms, Javid Nama (more works) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | British India |
Main interests | Urdu poetry, Persian poetry, Law |
Notable ideas | Two-nation theory, Allahabad Address |
Allama Muhammad Iqbal (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938), widely known as Allama Iqbal, was a Muslimpoet a
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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 a
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| South Asia Modern era | |
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| Name: Sir Muhammad Iqbāl Urdu spelling - محمد اقبال | |
| Birth: November 9, 1877 | |
| Death: April 21, 1938 | |
| School/tradition: Sunni | |
| Main interests | |
| poetry, history, metaphysics, Islam | |
| Notable ideas | |
| Two-Nation Theory | |
| Influences | Influenced |
| Rumi; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Thomas Walker Arnold | Pakistan movement |
| This article contains Indic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. |
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