Shikwa and Jawab-i-shikwa Complaint and Answer : Iqbal's dialogue with Allah

Author(s)

• Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir
• Khushwant Singh

Bibliographic Information

Shikwa and Jawab-i-shikwa = Complaint and Answer : Iqbal's dialogue with Allah

Muhammad Iqbal ; translated from the Urdu, with an introduction by Khushwant Singh and a foreword by Rafiq Zakaria

（Oxford India paperbacks）

Oxford University Press, 1990, c1981

Uniform Title

Shikvah

Jawab-i-shikwa

Note

English and Urdu (Devanagari and Arabic scripts)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Though much of Iqbal's best poetry is written in Persian, he is also a poet of colossal stature in Urdu. Shikwa (1909) and Jawab-i-Shikwa (1913) extol the legacy of Islam and its civilising role in history, bemoan the fate of Muslims everywhere, and squarely confront the dilemmas of Islam in modern times. Shikwa is thus, in the form of a complaint to Allah for having let down the Muslims and Jawab-i-Shikwa is Allah's reply to the poet's complaint.

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Details

• NCID: BA45515095
• ISBN:
  • 0195625609
• Country Code: ii
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engurdhin
• Place of Publication: Delhi
• Pages/Volumes: 96 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PK2199.I65
  • DC19 : 891/.43915
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0711565X