HIND-URD 108: Iqbal's Urdu Poetry

Instructor: Hajnalka Kovacs

Iqbal's Urdu Poetry is a comprehensive introduction to Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s (1877–1938) Urdu poetry. Along with reading and translating selected poems from Iqbal’s collections Bāng-e Darā, Bāl-e Jibrīl, Zarb-e Kalīm, and Armaghān-e Hijāz, we will discuss the grammatical, stylistic, and poetic features in his language as well the religious and political ideas expressed in the poems. The primary texts will be supplemented, whenever possible, with secondary readings in Urdu and English and relevant audio-visual material.