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    Development of the decolonial self
    (UMT Lahore, 2024) Nauman Abbas
    The purpose of this research is to study the images of death and the conceptual transformation of Muslim self (Khudi) in the poetry of Mir Taqi Mir, Bahadur Shah Zafar and Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Iqbal was a Muslim poet of the Indian subcontinent whose poetry uplifted and inspired the minds of the 20th century. The primary concern of Iqbal was to alter the subaltern position of the Muslim community in the Indian subcontinent. The consequences of this subaltern identity on Muslim selfhood are reflected through the life of Mir and Zafar. The forced exile of these Muslim subjects identifies a colonial binary between the natives and the foreign invaders. The life of Mir, Zafar and Iqbal is a symbolic critique to the disciplining of Muslim selfhood by colonial reformists. The focus on the re-empowering of the self-shows that Muslims were reduced to a subordinate position in the political and social environment of the subcontinent. The reimagination and evolution of the Muslim experience resulted in the concept of Khudi that in turn influenced the decolonization of mind. Thus, the idea of death in Iqbal’s poetry serves to free the Other from colonial ideology and moves beyond that of Mir and Zafar’s. The concept of self will be examined through Jung's theory of psyche which he defines as an interplay between the conscious and the unconscious mind. The study analyzes a selection of Mir, Zafar and Iqbal’s translated verses.