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Dr. Mohammad Iqbal (Also known as Allama Iqbal)

Biography

Known as: Sir Mohammad Iqbal / Dr. Mohammad Iqbal / Allama Iqbal

Date of Birth: November 9, 1877

Date of Death: April 21, 1938

School / tradition: Sunni

Main Interests: Poetry, History, Metaphysics, Islam

Profession: Philosopher

Notable Ideas: Two Nation Theory

Influences: Rumi; Goethe; Thomas Walker Arnold

Influenced: Pakistan movement

Breif Introduction:

Iqbal is the best articulated Muslim response to Modernity that the Islamic world has produced in the 20th century. His response has three dimensions:
A creative engagement with the conceptual paradigm of modernism at a sophisticated philosophical level through his prose writings, mainly his "The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam" which present his basic philosophic insights.
His Urdu and Persian poetry which is the best embodiment of poetically mediated thought, squarely in the traditional continuity of Islamic literature and perhaps the finest flowering of wisdom poetry, or contemplative poetry or inspired poetry in the modern times.
As a political activist/ social reformer― rising up to his social responsibility, his calling at a critical phase of history.

Some of his popular writings are:

Bang-i-dara (1924)

Bal-i-jibril (1935)

Zarb-i-kalim (1936)

Armaghan-i-hijaz (1938)

 

Below is the material you can read about Dr.Iqbal at Fdilbar.com;

A Poem by Sir Mohammad Iqbal (Allama Iqbal)

Few Qoutes by Sir Mohammad Iqbal (Allama Iqbal)

 

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