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Iqbal: Poet of the East Oscar Wilde and while we read ofAUTHOR : Raza Mir GENRE : Poetry QUICK TAKE: A short volume that introduces Iqbal to the millennial generation newcomers. SYNOPSIS: Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877 1938), also known as the 'Poet of the East', earned a doctorate in philosophy from the Ludwig Maximillian University at Munich, and wrote his most evocative poems in Urdu, a language that was not his mother tongue. He counted Jawaharlal Nehru as one of his fans, and earned Mahatma Gandhi's