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Iqbal Academy United Kingdom · Established 1971

EVENTS

Lectures, readings and evenings of Iqbal's verse

The Academy holds its events with partners across the United Kingdom and beyond — university lecture halls, embassies, community centres and concert rooms, from Symphony Hall to SOAS and Trinity College, Cambridge. Admission is usually free; where seats are limited we ask you to reserve.

Our next gathering

No forthcoming events are currently listed. Explore past gatherings below, or contact the Academy for news of future events.

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From the archive

  • An address from the head table at an Academy banquet in a formal hall.
    An address from the top table.
  • Academy members and guests posed together at a formal indoor gathering.
    Members and guests, January 1998.
  • A speaker at a microphone addressing a seated panel at an Academy lecture, photographed in black and white.
    From the lecture archive.

Past events

2000 — 2016
Six events in this selection

2016

Two events
Peyam-E-IqbalAn evening of Iqbal's Urdu and Persian verse sung by the Hussain BrothersDetailsAnnual lecture — Iqbal and the idea of the selfGiven at the University of Birmingham, followed by a reading in Urdu and English. Chaired by Prof. Dr Saeed A. Durrani.Details

2014

Two events
Essay competition for West Midlands schoolsFor GCSE and A Level students. The topic: 'Education: Not only a Right but also an Obligation'. Prizes awarded at the Academy's autumn gathering.DetailsIqbal Day — readings and recitation, CoventryThe Academy's yearly commemoration of Iqbal's birth, held in the city where it was founded in 1971.Details

2008

One event
Iqbal in Europe — Centenary International ConferenceMarking a century since Iqbal completed his studies in Europe, 1905–08, and themed around his doctoral thesis, The Development of Metaphysics in Persia.Details

2000

One event
Music of the East: 2000 — a Millennium of MusicA gala of South Asian classical and spiritual music to mark the Millennium, in the presence of HRH Princess Sarvath El Hassan of Jordan.Details

Earlier events, from 1971 onwards, are held in the Academy's own programmes and brochures.

The full chronology, 1987–2007 →Enquire at the library →

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