"Iqbal Lahori and Islamic Awakening" Forum Planned
Shahriyar International Scientific Research Foundation will organize a forum on "Allamah Iqbal Lahori and Islamic Awakening" on May 15 at the National Library and Archives Organization in Tehran.
Talking to IQNA, Shirin Ahadnezhad, member of the foundation, said that the program will clarify the status of Allamah Iqbal Lahori in the Islamic awakening movement.
Iqbal Lahori Academy in Pakistan and the embassy of Pakistan will cooperate in organization of the program.
An exhibition of research studies, theses and documents introducing the Muslim scholar will be held on the sidelines of the program, she added.
The forum will be addressed by Khalid Aziz Babar, Pakistani ambassador to Tehran, who will discuss the status of Iqbal in the contemporary literature in Pakistan.
Abbas’ali Wafayi, dean of Allameh Tabatabai’s Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kiumarthi, head of the Department of Urdu Language at Tehran University and Abdul Rafi’ Haqiqat, Iranian researcher, will also present speeches respectively on the influence of Iqbal on litterateurs and poets of the world of Islam, his role in the contemporary literature of Islamic awakening and Iran in view of Iqbal.
Allameh Iqbal was a philosopher, poet and politician who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages. Along with his Urdu and Persian poetry, his various Urdu and English lectures and letters have been very influential in cultural, social, religious and political disputes over the years.
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Iqbal Lahori Academy in Pakistan and the embassy of Pakistan will cooperate in organization of the program.
An exhibition of research studies, theses and documents introducing the Muslim scholar will be held on the sidelines of the program, she added.
The forum will be addressed by Khalid Aziz Babar, Pakistani ambassador to Tehran, who will discuss the status of Iqbal in the contemporary literature in Pakistan.
Abbas’ali Wafayi, dean of Allameh Tabatabai’s Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kiumarthi, head of the Department of Urdu Language at Tehran University and Abdul Rafi’ Haqiqat, Iranian researcher, will also present speeches respectively on the influence of Iqbal on litterateurs and poets of the world of Islam, his role in the contemporary literature of Islamic awakening and Iran in view of Iqbal.
Allameh Iqbal was a philosopher, poet and politician who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages. Along with his Urdu and Persian poetry, his various Urdu and English lectures and letters have been very influential in cultural, social, religious and political disputes over the years.
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