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Place of Birth: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
About Muzaffar Iqbal
- Muzaffar Iqbal (Punjabi/Pakistan/Urdu: ???? ?????) (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, its spiritual and intellectual traditions, and Muslim encounter with modernity have been the focus of his work.
- In 2009, he initiated the project to produce the first Encyclopedia of the Qur'an by Muslims, the Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur'an (IEQ).He has published over 100 articles on various aspect of Islam and Muslims.
- His published works on the relationship between Islam and science have appeared in many journals.
- He is the author of Islam and Science and editor of four volume Routledge publication Islam and Science: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives.
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