Who was Muhammad Iqbal?

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Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) was an Indian poet and philosopher who wrote in Urdu and Persian. He called for the revival of Muslim selfhood and is regarded as the spiritual father of the idea of Pakistan. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas