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Columbia University Press, Published 1971. Hardcover, xviii, 441 pp.; 24 cm; Studies in Oriental Culture, no. 7.
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In Very Good condition with an Acceptable dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with blue panel and gilt lettering and device on spine. Mild shelf and edge wear with a hint of soiling to covers. Binding tight. Faint pencil erasure at top corner of front free endpaper. Some glue residue along the edge of rear pastedown. Mild spotting to edges of text block. Otherwise unmarked. Jacket is toned and has grown brittle along the edges, with color loss along them: a 1 inch tear at the top edge of front panel near the spine, a 3/4 inch tear at the bottom edge of front panel, and a 3 inch triangular chip at the bottom edge of rear panel, the loss running up into the Columbia University Press imprint line. Further small nicks, tears and creasing along top and bottom edges, scattered spotting to both panels, and light rubbing to the dark blue panels. Flap unclipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), Urdu and Persian poet, lawyer and philosopher, is honored in Pakistan as the country's spiritual father; his 1930 presidential address to the Muslim League first put the case for a separate Muslim polity in northwest India. Number 7 in Columbia's Studies in Oriental Culture and the first broad scholarly assessment of him in English. Hafeez Malik gathered seventeen contributors from the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, India, the United States and Pakistan, among them scholars of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Annemarie Schimmel writes on the mystic impact of Hallaj, the poet's son Javid Iqbal contributes a memoir, and Justice William O. Douglas supplies the foreword. An appendix reprints Iqbal's 1936-1937 letters to Jinnah. English text with romanized quotations in Persian and Urdu.Contents: The Life of the Poet-Philosopher (Hafeez Malik and Lynda P. Malik); Glimpses of the Man (Muhammad Daud Rahbar); Iqbal: My Father (Javid Iqbal); The Man of Thought and the Man of Action (Hafeez Malik); Ideology of Muslim Nationalism (L. R. Gordon-Polonskaya); The Development of Political Philosophy (Riffat Hassan); Perceptions of International Politics (Jan Marek); View of Democracy and the West (Freeland Abbott); Inspiration from the West (B. A. Dar); The Heritage of Islamic Thought (A. H. Kamali); Conception of Time (S. Alam Khundmiri); The Doctrine of Personality (N. P. Anikeyev); Attitude toward Sufism (Abu Sayeed Nur-ud-Din); The Demise of Fatalism (M. T. Stepanyants); Mystic Impact of Hallaj (Annemarie Schimmel); Conception of Poetry and the Poet (Hadi Hussain); Iqbal and Western Poets (S. A. Vahid); Appendix: Letters of Iqbal to Jinnah; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index.