EVERY year readers are deluged with new books and articles on Allama Iqbal. On his death anniversary, falling on April 21, one feels that the topic has been done to death and hardly any aspect of ...

ALLAMA Iqbal’s first poetic collection in Urdu, Baang-i-Dara, was first published in 1924. But before Iqbal could bring out this work, two admirers of Iqbal collected and published their own versions ...

There is ample proof to suggest that Urdu was considered by the great poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal as the only language for the Muslims of the subcontinent long before the idea was endorsed by ...

Urdu Day has traditionally been celebrated on November 9, the birth anniversary of poet Allama Iqbal. However, there’s a small revolt of sorts in the offing. Banding under the banner of the Jawaharlal ...

To explore these questions, we’re joined by two distinguished guests: Dr Taqui Abedi, scholar, researcher, and leading authority on Iqbaliyat and Afzal Rizvi, writer and community leader, deeply ...

Iqbal started his career in 1899 as a teacher of history and philosophy, at the Lahore Oriental College. It was in 1903 that he wrote a book on economics in Urdu: 'Jim al-Iqtisad. That was the time ...

Born and raised in Sialkot, Punjab, Sir Muhammad Iqbal was a South Asian Muslim writer whose poetry in the Urdu language is considered among the greatest of the 20th century.