Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal

Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: محمد اقبال‎; 9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is thought by many to be among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan. He is commonly referred to by the honorific Allama (from Persian علامه ʻallāma, "very knowing, most learned".) Born and raised in Sialkot, Punjab (present-day Pakistan) in an ethnic Kashmiri family, Iqbal studied in Sialkot and Lahore, and thereafter in England and Germany. Although he established a law practice after returning, he concentrated primarily on writing scholarly works on politics, economics, history, philosophy, and religion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Iqbal has received more than 4,173,394 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Muhammad Iqbal is the 500th most popular writer (up from 530th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 6th in 2019) 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.