Dr. Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Dr. Sir Allama
Muhammad Iqbal

محمد اقبال

Born

9 November 1877

Sialkot, Punjab, British India

Died 21 April 1938 (aged 60)

Lahore, Punjab, British India

Other names Poet of the East

شاعر مشرق

Alma mater Scotch Mission College (F.A.)

Government College (B.A., M.A.)

University of Cambridge (B.A.)

University of Munich (Ph.D.)

Notable work Asrar-e-Khudi, Rumuz-e-Bekhudi, Payam-e-Mashriq, Zabur-e-Ajam, Javed Nama (more works)

Era 20th-century philosophy

Region British Raj

Main interests

Urdu poetry, Persian poetry, Law

Notable ideas

Two-nation theory, Conception of Pakistan

Influences[hide]

Syed Mir Hassan, Rumi, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Thomas Walker Arnold

Influenced[hide]

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan Movement, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Ale Ahmed Suroor, Fateh Muhammad Mali