Khurram Shafique

Khurram Ali Shafique is the author of several books on Iqbal, including “Iqbal: an Illustrated Biography”, for which he received Presidential Iqbal Award, and the recently published “Iqbal: His Life and Our Times”. He has vast experience as an educationist. He is the founder of Marghdeen Learning Centre, the pioneer of online courses in Iqbal Studies, conducted since May 2011.

Mother India

by Katherine Mayo. Published in May 1927; and by Jonathan Cape, London, in July 1927. Both editions were reprinted several times every year for some time. Go to the page at Internet Archive for downloading the 33rd reprint of the US edition, published March 1931. This is one of the references cited in  Iqbal: Daur-i-Urooj,

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The London Gazzette announcing the knighthood of Iqbal

Supplement  to the London Gazzette, January 1, 1923 (actually published on December 29, 1922).  The name of Iqbal can seen on p.2., as a recipient of knighthood, and is written as ‘Dr. Sheikh Muhammad Ikbal, Barrister, Lahore, Punjab’. Download the supplement in PDF from the official website, or go to p.2 (you can also navigate

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