Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Muzaffar Iqbāl (Punjabi/Urdu: مظفر اقبال) (born December 3, 1954 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and author. Iqbal earned his doctorate (1983) in Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan and then left the field of experimental science to devote himself fully to his chosen fields: literature, history, philosophy, Islamic intellectual and spiritual traditions. Between 1984 and 1990, he taught Urdu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984–85), wrote two acclaimed novels in Urdu, Inkhila (Uprooting) and Inqta (Severance). During 1980 and 1990, he published a number of translations of poetry of Latin American poets and wrote a series of literary essays on South American writers. He also wrote on literary theory.Since 1990, Islam and modernity has been the focus of his attention and he has published over 100 articles on various aspect of the encounter of the Muslim world with modernity. For over a decade, he was a regular columnist for Pakistan's largest English daily. His column, published under the title of \"Quantum Notes\", have been published in two collections, Dew on Sunburnt Roses and Definitive Encounters: Islam, Muslims, and the West."@en }
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- Muzaffar_Iqbal abstract "Muzaffar Iqbāl (Punjabi/Urdu: مظفر اقبال) (born December 3, 1954 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and author. Iqbal earned his doctorate (1983) in Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan and then left the field of experimental science to devote himself fully to his chosen fields: literature, history, philosophy, Islamic intellectual and spiritual traditions. Between 1984 and 1990, he taught Urdu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984–85), wrote two acclaimed novels in Urdu, Inkhila (Uprooting) and Inqta (Severance). During 1980 and 1990, he published a number of translations of poetry of Latin American poets and wrote a series of literary essays on South American writers. He also wrote on literary theory.Since 1990, Islam and modernity has been the focus of his attention and he has published over 100 articles on various aspect of the encounter of the Muslim world with modernity. For over a decade, he was a regular columnist for Pakistan's largest English daily. His column, published under the title of \"Quantum Notes\", have been published in two collections, Dew on Sunburnt Roses and Definitive Encounters: Islam, Muslims, and the West.".