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Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: محمد اقبال‎) (November 9 1877 – April 21 1938) also known as Allama Iqbal (علامہ اقبال) was a philosopher poet and politician in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages.Though Iqbal is best known as an eminent poet he is also a highly acclaimed Muslim philosophical thinker of modern times.

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birth date
1877-11-09
birth place
Sialkot, Punjab Province (British India), British Raj
death date
1938-04-21
death place
Punjab Province (British India), Lahore, British Raj
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah
influenced by
Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Rumi, Thomas Walker Arnold, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
main interest
Urdu poetry, Persian literature
notableIdea
Two-nation theory, Allahabad Address
region
British Raj

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