Muhammad Iqbal was a pre-eminent twentieth century Urdu and Persian poet, and an influential spokesman for Muslim separatism in India. He gave the Presidential Addresses in 1930 and 1932 at the annual sessions of the All-India Muslim League, the party which eventually spearheaded the movement for Pakistan. He was one of the delegates at the Round Table Conferences of 1930 and 1932 convened by the British government to discuss India’s constitutional future. His more influential poems were translated into English by eminent Orientalists, such as R.A. Nicholson (1920) and A.J. Arberry (1953, 1966), and the British novelist E.M. Forster wrote a review of one of these translations, in which he discussed some of Iqbal’s other poems (Forster 1920).
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Muhammad Iqbal was born in Sialkot
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Citation: Majeed, Javed. "Sir Muhammad Iqbal". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 July 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2307, accessed 20 April 2024.]
