| Islamic Personalities | |
| 20 Sep 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Iqbal's Lady Love | |
By Rakhshanda Jalil |
http://newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamicPersonalities_1.aspx?ArticleID=5516 | ||
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
By far the most stylistically sophisticated poet of the twentieth century, Allama Muhammad Iqbal drew on the best resources of a liberal Western education. While in his early poetry he had spoken of a united and free India where the Hindus and Muslims could co-exist, this belief in syncretism and pluralism soon gave way to Unitarianism and Individualism. The simple lyricism and romantic nationalism of the early phase was replaced by a self-conscious prophetism tempered with a strong political and social undertone. Iqbal's letters, given in their original form in the appendices and referred to also in Atiya's narrative, completes the picture. In one letter he writes, 'Thank you for all your scolding', in another he appends unpublished poems for her comments, offers clarifications as to why he refused teaching jobs at Aligarh and Lahore, confides about intensely personal matters such as his arranged marriage and the grief it has caused him. -- 
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