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Allama Iqbal
1877 – 1938
British IndiaUrdu / PersianGhazal, nazm, philosophical
Philosopher-poet whose verses awakened the conscience of a generation. From the children's prayer Lab pe aati hai dua to the visionary Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa, Iqbal's poetry binds the personal to the political with searing beauty.