Allama Iqbal, a great poet-philosopher and an active political leader was born in 1873, in Sialkot in the Punjab. He descended from a family of Kashmiri Brahmins, who had embraced Islam about three hundred years earlier.
Iqbal''s first education was in the traditional Mukatab. Later he joined the Sialkot Mission School, from where he passed his matriculation examination. In 1897, he obtained Bachelor of Arts Degree from the Government College, Lahore. Two years later, he secured his Master''s Degree and was appointed in the Oriental College, Lahore, as a lecturer in History, Philosophy and English. Later he proceeded to Europe for higher studies. Having obtained a degree at Cambridge, he later secured his doctorate at Munich and finally he was able to qualify as a barrister.

In 1908, on returning to India, besides teaching and practicing Law, Iqbal continued to write poetry. He resigned from the Government service in 1911 and took to the propagation of his individual thinking to the Muslims through his poetry.

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