This collection of articles evaluates the contributions of Muhammad Iqbal in the realm of politics, religion, literature, philosophy, and Iqbal in the realm of politics, religion, literature, philosophy, and socialism and reappraises his significance as an intellectual and a poet who perfected poetic genres in Urdu and Persian, expounded ideas of Islamic universalism, established dialogical parity with the West, and provided a philosophical framework for scholastic interpretations of Islam by modernity. This volume addresses an academic as well as a general readership interested in South Asian studies, Indo-Persian poetics, alternative discourses of East-West disputative engagements, and modern philosophical-scholastic trends in the study of Islam.