Join us for this 4-session class on the poetry and political life of Allama Iqbal. The class will be taught by Saad Yacoob, PhD student, Georgetown University.
A note on TIMINGS: The first class on October 6th will be at 8 pm, and isha will be at 8:30. We will break for Isha and come back. But the the following week, Isha will move to 8:15. So class on October 13-27 will start at 8:30, after isha.
Bio: Muhammad Iqbal was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is considered among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan. He is commonly referred to by the honorific Allama (from Persian: علامہ, romanized: ʿallāma, lit. 'very knowing, most learned').
Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilization across the world, but in particular in South Asia; a series of lectures he delivered to this effect were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. He formulated a political framework for Muslims in British-ruled India in resistance to colonialism. Iqbal died in 1938. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he was named the national poet there.