B.J. Sadiq

B.J. Sadiq is a British Pakistani writer. He was born in 1983 and read economics at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He has also received a degree from Government College University, Lahore. Soon after Cambridge, Sadiq apprenticed at the House of Lords before working as a financial journalist in London, and has also been a contributor to a range of publications, including the American Interest, the Spectator, the Daily Times and the Friday Times. He divides his time between Pakistan and England.

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Sir Allama Mohammad Iqbal also known as Allama Iqbal was born in 1877 in Sialkot, Punjab, in British Ruled India, now Pakistan, and was educated in the local school and college in Sialkot, before going on the university in Lahore. There he studied Arabic and philosophy as an undergraduate, then in 1899 did an M.A. in philosophy (being ranked first in the Punjab, and awarded a Gold Medal). He was appointed to a Readership in Arabic at the Oriental College in Lahore, and over the next few years became well known as a poet, as well as writing his first book (in Urdu), The Knowledge of Economics (1903).

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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (Urdu: شمس الرحمٰن فاروقی‎) (born January 15, 1935) is an Indian poet and one of the leading Urdu critics and theorists. He is regarded as the T.S. Eliot of Urdu criticism and has formulated fresh models of literary appreciation. He absorbed western principles of literary criticism and subsequently applied them to Urdu literature, but only after adapting them to address literary aesthetics native to Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. He was born on 15 January 1935 in India. He received his Master of Arts (MA) degree in English from Allahabad University in 1955.
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