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Mohammed Iqbal by Anna Marie Schimmel.(Post 172) a link

Here is a link to a lecture by Professor Annemarie Schimmel  "The Work of Muhammad Iqbal”. Allama Iqbal was a philosopher, a scholar , a mystic and a renown poet. He was born in 1877 in Sialkot, Pakistan and died in in Lahore in 1938. He
Annemarie Schimmel (1923-2003) was a highly respected German scholar who wrote extensively on Islam and Sufism and taught in many universities of the world including Harvard.  A link to her  talk..

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