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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Muhammad Iqbal was born in Sialkot, Punjab, in 1877 and taught Arabic at Oriental College, Lahore, while writing poems like "Tarana-e-Hindi" and an early meditation on animal rights. In 1905 he left for Europe, earning a second BA at Cambridge, qualifying as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn, and completing a PhD in philosophy at Munich on Persian metaphysics. Back in Lahore in 1908, he opened a law practice but turned his energy to poetry and philosophy — works like "Asrar-e-Khudi" and "Bang-e-Dara" won him acclaim in Urdu; his Persian verse earned recognition in Iran. Elected to the Punjab Legislative Council in 1927, he delivered his Allahabad Address to the All-India Muslim League in 1930, formulating the vision that would drive the two-nation theory. He died in April 1938; nine years later, partition gave way to Pakistan, which named him its national poet.