Muhammad Iqbal, Poet-philosopher of the East: Scholar in Islamic History

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ScholarPoet-philosopher of the East

Muhammad Iqbalمحمد اقبال

1877-1938 CELahore

A poet-philosopher of Lahore who called Muslims to rediscover the self and their faith.

Educated in Lahore, Cambridge and Munich, he wrote poetry in Urdu and Persian urging Muslims to awaken. His lectures, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, engaged Western philosophy. In 1930 he proposed a Muslim homeland in north-west India.

What grew out of it?

He is Pakistan's national poet, and his poems are loved from Iran to Turkey.

Who else is linked?

Lahore Muhammad Ali Jinnah European colonial empires

Who lived at the same time?

Mehmed V Mehmed VI Abdul Hamid II Abdulmejid II Mustafa Kemal Muhammad Ahmad Abdulaziz ibn Saud Queen Victoria

Source: history · Wikipedia

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Muhammad Iqbalمحمد اقبال

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