TEHRAN (IBNA) -- ECO
Cultural Institute (ECI) will hold an international celebration titled ‘Iqbal of Love’ ‎on Monday in cooperation with some institutes, universities and IBNA to commemorate ‎South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician Muhammad Iqbal.‎
The event has been organized on the occasion of the 144th birthday anniversary of Sir Muhammad Iqbal. ECI President Sarvar Bakhti; Pakistani Ambassador to Tehran Rahim Hayat Qureshi; Head of Iqbal School Literary Institute Iqbal Salah al-Din and a Professor of literature at Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran Ahmad Tamimdari are among those who will discuss the life, career and status of Iqbql in ECO region in the program.
Iqbal whose poetry in the Urdu language is 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 which means “very knowing or most learned”.
The scholar pursued his higher education in the West and received a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Munich. He 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.
After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he was named the national poet there.
ECI has already published the book ‘Our Iqbal: Analytical-Historical Bibliography of Iqbal Studies in Iran (1928-2012)’, written by Hakime Dastranji (Ph.D.) to be available to Iqbal researchers and scholars. The book will be unveiled in the upcoming event.
The international celebration of ‘Iqbal of Love’ is scheduled for Monday, November 15 at 5 p.m. Tehran time. It will be held at the ECI Hall of International Conferences and will be aired by Sahar International TV of Iran. The program also features ritual music and dance by an ensemble led by Abbas Habibzadeh and Khosrow Azarbaig.