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At a glance

Roles: poet-scholar
Region: South Asia
Identifiers: Wikidata
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Life in time

The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Muhammad al-Amin al-Mithqab · Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti · Muhammad al-Bashir al-Khawja · Muhammad ibn Isa Al Khalifa · Tantawi Jawhari

Renewal and reform Literature Islam and the modern state

Overview

A poet and philosopher from Lahore, who called for the revival of Muslim selfhood and is regarded as the spiritual father of the idea of Pakistan. ¹

People and things also explored

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Sources

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islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad Iqbal”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhammad-iqbal/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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