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Introducing Iqbal the Economist

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  • Pervez Tahir

    (Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad.)

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The Iqbal Memorial Lecture was instituted in 1994 when the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE) celebrated the completion of a decade of steady progress. A brief announcement stated: “The Iqbal Memorial Lecture attributed to the national poet [Emphasis added], Allama Muhammad Iqbal has been included in the programme for the first time. Professor Ian M. D. Little is delivering that lecture” [Secretary’s Report (1994), p. 1472]. Iqbal, the poet and philosopher par excellence, has made incisive remarks or comments on economic and social issues in his poetry, philosophical writings, and in the course of his discourses as well as some famous letters, particularly those written to the Quaid-i-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. But these do not make Iqbal an economist. The Secretary of the PSDE was, therefore, careful in observing that the lecture commemorates our “national poet”. However, it will be of great interest to this largest national congregation of economists and other scholars concerned with development to know that the very first published book of Iqbal related neither to poetry nor philosophy, but economics. It was written in Urdu. He also taught the subject at undergraduate and Master’s level, even though he had not studied it as a student. At the Government College, Lahore, Iqbal studied English, Philosophy and Arabic for his B.A. and then completed the M.A. in Philosophy.

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  • Pervez Tahir, 2001. "Introducing Iqbal the Economist," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 40(4), pages 1167-1176.
  • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:40:y:2001:i:4:p:1167-1176
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    1. Islahi, Abdu Azim, 2014. "“The Genesis of Islamic Economics” Revisited," MPRA Paper 68367, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2015.
    2. Islahi, Abdul Azim, 2015. "The Genesis of Islamic Economics Revisited By Abdul Azim Islahi," Islamic Economic Studies, The Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), vol. 23, pages 1-28.
    3. Abdul Azim Islahi, 2008. "Thirty Years of Research on History of Islamic Economic Thought: Assessment and Future Directions ثلاثون عاماً من البحث في تاريخ الفكر الاقتصادي الإسلامي: تقييم واتجاهات مستقبلية," Papers and books based on the proceedings of the Conferences organized by the Islamic Economics Institute, KAAU. 57, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute..
    4. Islahi, Abdul Azim, 2007. "Thirty years of research in the history of Islamic economic thought:Assessment and future directions," MPRA Paper 18102, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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