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Iqbāl, Muḥammad
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[German Version] (Nov 9, 1877, Sialkot – Apr 21, 1938, Lahore), leading poet-philosopher in modern Islam. Iqbāl was schooled in English and German philosophy and was an admirer of J.W. v. Goethe and M.Ğ. Rūmī. In his Persian (6 vols.) and Urdu (3 vols.) poetry, he developed his dynamic worldview, in which love appears as the force that stengthens the individual on the path to God and wherein the defeat of Satan through continuous struggle plays an important role. In his lectures (1928), Iqbāl atte…
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Religion Past and Present
India
(4,173 words)
[German Version] I. General – II. History and Culture – III. Religious History – IV. History of Christianity
I. General The designation “India,” Gk ἰνδός/
indós, Latinized as
indus, goes back to Sanskrit
sindhu (orig. “boundary”?) through the intermediary of Old Persian
hindu; it is a designation of the River Sindhu and of the Indus region, from which Persian Hindūstān, “Place/territory of the Hindus,” is derived. The Indians themselves called the land (among other designations) Bhārata, “[Land of the] Descendants of Bhārata” (the l…
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Religion Past and Present