Known as the spiritual father of the "idea of Pakistan" and "Hakeem-ul-Ummat (sage of Ummah)," Allama Sir Muhammed Iqbal commands a profound impact on the Muslim intellectual tradition. Bang-e-Dara, The Secrets of the Self, Message from the East, and Javid Nama persist as great poetry collections. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A.) in 1906, and Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich (PhD) in 1907.
Originally delivered as lectures in Madras, Hyderabad, and Aligarh (British India), The Reconstruction of the Religious Thought in Islam was first compiled and published in the early 1930's. As his magnum opus in prose, this book has influenced generations of Islamic philosophers, thinkers, reformers, and activists.
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