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Muhammad Iqbal

1877 - 1938

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Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was a South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician. His poetry in Urdu is considered to be among the greatest of the 20th century, and his vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India is widely regarded as having animated the impulse for the Pakistan Movement. He is commonly referred to by the honorific Allama (Persian: علامه, transl. "learned") and widely considered one of the most important and influential Muslim thinkers and Islamic religious philosophers of the 20th century. Born and raised in Sialkot, Punjab, Iqbal completed his BA and MA at the Government College in Lahore. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Muhammad Iqbal is the 123rd most popular writer (up from 494th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Pakistan and the most popular Pakistani Writer.

Muhammad Iqbal is most famous for being a poet and philosopher. He is also known for being the first person to translate the Quran into English, and for being a founding member of the All-India Muslim League.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 123 out of 7,302Before him are Theodor Herzl, Hafez, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ismail I, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Federico García Lorca. After him are Ivo Andrić, Naguib Mahfouz, Jane Austen, Ammianus Marcellinus, Apuleius, and Sully Prudhomme.

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Among people born in 1877, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 2Before him is Hermann Hesse. After him are Isadora Duncan, Charles Glover Barkla, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Frederick Soddy, Francis William Aston, Wilhelm Frick, Joan Gamper, Heinrich Otto Wieland, James Jeans, and Frank Marshall. Among people deceased in 1938, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 2Before him is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. After him are Edmund Husserl, Maud of Wales, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Karel Čapek, Konstantin Stanislavski, Marie of Romania, Georges Méliès, Mary Mallon, Faustina Kowalska, and Nikolai Bukharin.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 6 out of 217Before him are Akbar (1542), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Guru Nanak (1469), Manmohan Singh (1932), and Pāṇini (-500). After him are Porus (-400), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Chanakya (-375), I. K. Gujral (1919), and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948).

Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 1After him are Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), Amrita Pritam (1919), Krishna Sobti (1925), Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690), Rahman Baba (1632), Tariq Ali (1943), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Bulleh Shah (1680).