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Muhammad Iqbal

1877 - 1938

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Sir Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was a South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician. His poetry is considered to be among the greatest of the 20th century, and his vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India is widely regarded as having animated the impulse for the Pakistan Movement. He is commonly referred to by the honourific Allama (Persian: علامه, transl. "learned"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Iqbal has received more than 6,882,167 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Muhammad Iqbal is the 494th most popular writer (up from 528th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Pakistan and the most popular Pakistani Writer.

Muhammad Iqbal is most famous for being a poet and philosopher. He is also known for being the first person to translate the Quran into English, and for being a founding member of the All-India Muslim League.

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Notable Works

Jāvīdnāmah
1930
Poems
1947
The Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts in Islam
Religion
"Lectures ... undertaken at the request of the Madras Muslim Association and delivered at Madras, Hyderabad, and Aligarh." - p. [v]
1994
The Development of Metaphysics in Persia a Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy
Philosophy
1908. This work marks the first and only historical account of Persia's philosophical thought and the credit of its conception goes to Iqbal. Contents: Part I Pre-Islamic Persian Philosophy; and Part II Greek Dualism.
2005
The Secrets of the Self
1998

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 494 out of 7,302. Before him are Wu Cheng'en, Giorgos Seferis, Ilya Ehrenburg, Ludvig Holberg, Alessandro Manzoni, and Eugene O'Neill. After him are Patricia Highsmith, George R. R. Martin, G. K. Chesterton, Christopher Marlowe, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, and Henri Barbusse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 8. Before him are Isadora Duncan, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Wilhelm Frick, Charles Glover Barkla, Joan Gamper, and Frederick Soddy. After him are Francis William Aston, Heinrich Otto Wieland, G. H. Hardy, Louis Renault, Raoul Dufy, and Kees van Dongen. Among people deceased in 1938, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 19. Before him are Karl Kautsky, Alexei Rykov, Suzanne Valadon, Genrikh Yagoda, Carl von Ossietzky, and Robert Johnson. After him are Osip Mandelstam, Marie of Romania, Christian Lous Lange, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Bruno Taut, and Vasily Blyukher.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 6 out of 217. Before him are Akbar (1542), Shah Jahan (1592), Chanakya (-375), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), and Guru Nanak (1469). After him are Pāṇini (-500), Bhagat Singh (1907), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Vasubandhu (400), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), and Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 1. After him are Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), Amrita Pritam (1919), Bulleh Shah (1680), Rahman Baba (1632), Krishna Sobti (1925), Tariq Ali (1943), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690).

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