Iqbal, Sir Muhammad (1877–1938), philosopher and poet, was born at Sialkot in the Punjab on 9 November 1877. He was the younger son of Sheikh Nuruddin Muhammad, whose forebears were Hindu converts to Islam originally from Kashmir, and Imam Bibi, a devout woman of working-class background. He was educated at the ...
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Iqbal, Sir Muhammad (1877–1938), philosopher and poet
H. A. R. Gibb
revised by Francis Robinson
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Jamal, Mahmood (1948–2020), poet, translator, and film and television producer
Khizar Humayun Ansari
Jamal, Mahmood (1948–2020), poet, translator, and film and television producer, was born in Lucknow, India, on 11 March 1948, the son of Maulana Jamal Mian (1919–2012), politician, and his wife, Asar Fatima. He was a descendant of the scholarly ulama-Sufi family of ...
