Allama Muhammad Iqbal

 

Through his poetry and prose, "Iqbal undermines the incarcerating effect which the limiting and homogenising [sic] term 'Muslim' had, and continues to have, when used by those in the West. In Western usage, the term is generally rooted in suppositions about the static nature of the consciousness of any person identified as 'Muslim.'"  Javed Majeed, Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics, and Postcolonialism, London: Routledge (2009), 23.