THE DEEP PRINTS OF TRIPOLI WAR ON MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Abstract

The people of the subcontinent considered it their duty to stand by the Ottoman State, which they were pleased with and grateful for, because of their administration, which had lasted since the first Turkish states. After the Ottoman Empire took over the caliphate, a spiritual bond was established between the Muslims of the subcontinent and the Ottoman Empire, and the relations between these two societies gradually increased. During difficult times that countries go through, authors are usually the ones who put societies in action. Muhammed Iqbal, who had a sincere love for Turks, shared the grief of Turks during the Tripoli War. As a reflection of this, Iqbal made a great contribution to forming public opinion by instilling love for Turks into Indian Muslims through the poems in which he gave examples about the heroic epics of Turks. In this study, we aim to reveal the significance of Iqbal’s support, which reached to a big crowd of people between Subcontinent Muslims, by studying his poems, written with the same emotions and enthusiasm as Turks, that depict the tough times Turks were going through during the Tripoli War. 

Keywords

• muhammad iqbal, tripoli war, tripolian abdullah b. fatma, mehmet akif ersoy.