POETRY OF MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Abstract

Mustansir Mir, the Pakistani expert in poetry and philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal, presents some basic biographical data and most significant information on Iqbal’s philosophy and poetry. Iqbal is impossible to comprehend without knowing his philosophy and universal Islamic tradition. Mustansir Mir explains the connection between philosophy and poetry „of this most dominant intellectual and poetic Muslim personality of the 20th century“, as Fazlur-Rahman has called him. In the selection of translations by Džemaludin Latić, Novi MUALLIM publishes for the first time in Bosnian language, the most famous poems of Muhammad Iqbal, the «poetphilosopher, poet of Muslim decadency but of Muslim awakening too ».