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Muhammad Iqbal

Died in 1938

Muhammad Iqbal was born in 1877 in Sialkot, in the Punjab. After studying at Government College Lahore, he took a degree at Cambridge in 1906 and then a doctorate in philosophy in Munich, and became a lawyer. A teacher, poet and thinker, he wrote in Urdu and Persian, from Asrar-i-Khudi to Javid Nama. In 1930, as head of the Muslim League, he proposed a state for the Muslim provinces of north-western India. He died in Lahore on 21 April 1938; Pakistan honours him as its national poet.

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