Poems from Iqbal: Renderings in English Verse with Comparative Urdu Text [Hardcover]

Allama Muhammad Iqbal (Author), V. G. Kiernan (Translator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0195799747 | ISBN-13: 978-0195799743 | Publication Date: February 24, 2005

Allama Muhammad Iqbal was acknowledged during his lifetime as the most important poet of Muslim India in the twentieth century, both for the quality of his verse and for the influence exercised by his ideas. Since his death in 1938, his fame has continued to grow and has reached the West through a number of English studies and translations. Most of the latter have been his philosophical poetry in Persian. This volume contains a rendering in English of over a hundred poems chosen from the four collections of Iqbal's poetry written in Urdu, which include religious, lyrical, satirical and other themes. the English versions are accompained by the original text.

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Review

Kiernan has undoubtedly done a remarkable job by producing such a marvellous translation of the work of a poet whose infallible message is even today a source of inspiration for millions of people around the world. The News International

About the Author

Born near Manchester, V. G. Kiernan was a pupil of the Manchester Grammar School, and then of Trinity College, Cambridge. He then went on to undertake research work in modern diplomatic history, and won a College Fellowship. He was in India for eight years before the Partition, involved in radio broadcasting during the war, and in teaching at the Aitchison College in Lahore. During his time there he got to know Faiz Ahmed Faiz and other Urdu writers, and began his verse translations of Iqbal, who had died recently in Lahore, and of Faiz. In later years he was given a Personal Chair in Modern History at the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a number of books and essays on Asian and European history, and on English Literature. Now retired, he lives in the Scottish Borders, with his wife, Heather.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 322 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 24, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195799747
• ISBN-13: 978-0195799743
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,584,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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