Muhammad Iqbal

Born

November 9, 1877

Died

April 21, 1938 (aged 60)

Known as

philosopher, poet, children's writer, politician, lawyer, jurist

Sir Muhammad Iqbal was an Islamic philosopher and poet. His poetry in Urdu is considered among the greatest of the 20th century, and his vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British India is widely regarded as having animated the impulse behind the Pakistan Movement. The honorific commonly refers to him as Allamah and is widely considered one of the most important and influential Muslim thinkers and Islamic religious philosophers of the 20th century.

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