Aims
The aims and objectives of the Academy are to promote and disseminate the study and understanding of the works and teachings of Iqbal.
To promote these comprehensive objectives fruitfully, the work of the Academy is divided into two distinct parts:
- Study of Iqbal's work, and
- Study of all those movements of thought, philosophical, political, literary, social, cultural, etc., that can help in understanding the works of Iqbal - movements of thought within the Islamic tradition as well as those belonging to traditions of other cultures that happened to influence the mind of Iqbal, positively or negatively.
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