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Abstract

Allama Iqbal used two languages to express his poetic works: Urdu and Persian. In prose he adopted Urdu and English as medium of expression. Apart from poetry and prose writings, Allama Iqbal wrote detailed letters on various topics. Through these letters, where various aspects of his personal life come to light, it also helps to understand his point of view on national and global issues. In these letters some such collective issues have also been discussed, regarding which his point of view is not found in any other of his work with such clarity. Twenty one collections of Allama Iqbal's letters that have been published so far are as follows: Ataliq Khutoot Nawisee,  Letters 10, Shad Iqbal,  letters 49, Iqbal's letters to Jinnah,  letters 18, Iqbal Nama (I),  Letters 266, Iqbal by Atiya Begum,  letters 10, Iqbal Nama (II),  letters 187, Makatib banam Khan Niazuddin Khan,  letters 79, Letters of Iqbal,  letters 182, Anwar Iqbal,  letters 185, Letters & Writings of Iqbal,  letters 43, published in 1967, Makatib Iqbal banam Grami,  letters 90, Nawader Iqbal,  letters 50, first edition, 1973, Iqbal banam Shad,  letters 99, Letters of Iqbal, number 111, Letters of Iqbal,  letters 103, first edition, 1978, Iqbal - his Political Ideas at Crossroad,  letters 9, first edition, 1979, Iqbal's letters,  letters 71, Iqbal- Jehan e Digar,  letters 44, Iqbal in Europe,  letters 67, Mazloom Iqbal,  letters 103, Kulliyat e Makateeb e Iqbal-Muzaffar Hussain Barni,  letters in the volume-I: 319,  letters in the volume-II: 429,  letters in the volume-III: 406. letters in the volume-IV: 365. According to a conservative estimate,  the number letters of Allama Iqbal is more or less 1451.