Allama Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: علامہ سر محمد اقبال; November 9, 1877 Sialkot – April 21, 1938 Lahore) was a Persian & Urdu poet, philosopher and politician born in Sialkot, in the British Raj (now part of Pakistan since the 1947 Partition of India), whose poetry in Urdu and Persian is considered to be among the greatest of the modern era