Poems From Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal, also known as Allama Iqbal (b. 1877) is the national poet of Pakistan. Having studies philosophy, English literature, and Arabic, he would go on to write the famous Sare Jahan se Achccha Hindostan Hamara which was taken up as a national expression of opposition to the British Raj in India in particular, but also in what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh as well.

He is known for his poetry in Urdu and Persian, and so emblematic was his poetry of that part of the world that was known as Shair-e-Mashriq, "the poet of the East." In this translation of his Urdu poems into English, Victor Kiernan (1913-2009), who was an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, sought to introduce the work of this important author to the English-speaking world. It contains a selection of poems from all three of Iqbal's Urdu publications, which were chosen so as to provide best a complete picture of that which makes Iqbal's poetry special.

The volume is in fair condition, with a dust jacket that is also fair. There is significant damage to the bottom corner and spine of the front cover and some general wear to the book. There are also tears and wear to the edges of the dust jacket, and the bottom corner of the front of the dust jacket appears to have been cut, though the dust jacket has not been price clipped.