The commemoration ceremony of Iqbal Lahori, great Muslim poet, philosopher and thinker of the Indian sub-continent, and ECO region was held at Pakistan Embassy in Tehran on Thursday.
The event was organized by the Embassy of Pakistan in collaboration with the Center of Excellence in Ferdowsi and Shahnameh, affiliated to the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, ISNA reported on Saturday. At the ceremony, a number of Persian language professors delivered lectures about Iqbal's personality and poetry, calling him a poet who became the link between Iran and Pakistan with his Persian poems.
Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilization across the world, but in particular in South Asia; a series of lectures he delivered to this effect were published as “The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam”.