Excellent bibliographical work about Allama Muhammad Iqbal in the Arabic
scripts (Urdu, Persian, Arabic and so on) has been published by the
Iqbal Academy, Lahore. Our publication covers only what appeared in the
Roman script: English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Czech,
Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Turkish, and Russian. Many books have some
kind of bibliographical list, and we have tried to include all that
material in the present publication. With the generous support of the
Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan, the Iqbal Foundation
Europe at the KULeuven, Belgium, has endeavoured to combine meticulous
and patient work in libraries with the most modern search on internet.
The result is an impressive tribute to Iqbal and to the research about
him: 2500 entries, the latest entry dated 1998 (A. Schimmel). Even if
many superfluous or repetitive articles may have been published, a
researcher should look at even small contributions: they may contain
valuable information and rare insights. The databank we compiled at the
university of Leuven is composed of material taken from published works
and from the on-line services of the major university libraries. From
this it appeared that hundreds of scholars and authors have contributed
to the immense databank about Iqbal. The highest number of contributions
is by Annemarie Schimmel, S.A. Vahid and B.A. Dar, followed by A.
Bausani, K.A. Waheed, A.J. Arberry and so many others.
