Allama Muhammad Iqbal Biography

Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal mostly known as Allama Iqbal was a poet, philosopher and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholar in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. Allama Iqbal also known the "Spiritual Father of Pakistan." He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu Farsi literature, with literary work in both Urdu and Persian.
Iqbal is honored as a prominent poet by Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshies, UAE, Iranians and other international scholars of literature. Though Iqbal is widely known as an eminent poet, he is also a highly adulation "Muslim philosophical thinker of modern times". His first poetry book, The Secrets of the Self (Asrar-e-Khudi), published in the Persian language in 1915, and other books of poetry include The Secrets of Selflessness, Message from the East and Persian Psalms. Amongst these, his best known Urdu works are The Call of the Marching Bell, Gabriel's Wing, The Rod of Moses and a part of Gift from Hijaz. Along with his Urdu and Persian poetry, his Urdu and English lectures and letters have been very influential in cultural, social, religious and political dialogue.Allama Iqbal became a member of the London branch of the All-India Muslim League in 1922. Later, during the League's December 1930 session, he delivered his most famous presidential speech known as the Allahabad Address in which he pushed for the creation of a Muslim state in north-west India.