Presidential Iqbal Awards


Presidential Iqbal Award is a literary award which is presented by Iqbal Academy Pakistan with the approval of the President of Pakistan. The award is conferred for the best books written on national poet-philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s life and ideology in national and foreign languages.

History

Presidential Iqbal Award was started in 1981 under a presidential order by then president of Pakistan Zia-ul-Haq. Later, it was reconstituted by the president Arif Alvi in 2019.

Categories

  • Presidential National Iqbal Award – Annual basis
  • Presidential National Iqbal Award – Three year basis
  • Presidential Iqbal Award – Three year basis
  • Presidential International Iqbal Award – Three year basis

Recipients

Some of recipients of the Presidential Iqbal Award from 1981 to 2014 are Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Syed Nazeer Niazi, Bashir Ahmad Dar, Iftikhar Ahmad Siddiqui, Muhammad Munawwar Mirza, Syed Abdullah, Waheed Qureshi, Fateh Muhammad Malik, and Rafiuddin Hashmi.
YearAuthorTitleLanguageRef.
Muhammad Ikram Chughtai
2015 - 2020Dr Abdul KhaliqAllama Iqbal: Concept of Ego and Related PerspectivesEnglish
2015 - 2020Ghaus Bakhsh SabirShagrab-Shaar, Hakeem-ul-Umat Allama Muhammad Iqbal Shah Zant wa Shahshanab ZandwazamBalochi