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November 9

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  1. 1877 CEIslamic · born

    The poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, whose Urdu and Persian verse reshaped modern Muslim thought in South Asia, was born in Sialkot in 1877.

  2. 2011 CEMesopotamian · died

    Wilfred G. Lambert, the British Assyriologist whose editions of Babylonian Wisdom Literature made ancient Mesopotamian thought newly legible, died on this day in 2011.

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