Poet, philosopher, and political leader
Alama Iqbal Allama Iqbal was born at Silkot on November 9, 1877 and
studied at Government College, Lahore, Cambridge, and the Univ. of Munich, and
when that happens he taught philosophy at Government College and practiced law.
He was elected (1927) to the Punjab provincial legislature and served (1930) as
president of the Muslim League. A staunch advocate of Indian nationalism, he
became a supporter of an independent homeland for India's Muslims and he is
regarded as the spiritual founder of Pakistan. Iqbal was the foremost Muslim
thinker of his period, and in his a large number of volumes of poetry (written
in Urdu and Persian) and essays, he urged a regeneration of Islam in the sttink
of God and the active development of the self. He was a enduring believer in
freedom and the creative cause such a freedom can exert on men. He was knighted
in 1922. His functions list The Secrets of the Self (1915, tr. 1940), and
Javid-nama (1934, tr. 1966).
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