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| | Sir Allameh Muhammed Iqbal |
 | | Iqbal was born in 1877 in Sialkot inthe Punjab, then in India, now a province of Pakistan, and was educated in the local school and college in Sialkot, before going on the university in Lahore. |
 | | Despite his law practice, his philosophical work, and his gradual entry into politics, first as a member of the Punjab Legislative Council and later as president of the All India Muslim League, Iqbal was probably best known and respected as a poet. |
 | | Iqbal's philosophical work involved bringing various philosophical influences, including Leibniz, Hegel, and Nietzsche, to his Islamic scholarship, thus holding out the promise of a revival of genuine Islamic philosophical thought — a return of Islam to its place in the philosophical world. |
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