Urdu · proper noun · Nation, Faith & Society
Mussolini
मुसोलिनी
said mus-so-LEE-nee
also written: mussolini, benito mussolini, musolini
Meaning
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist leader whom Iqbal met in 1933; his poems on Mussolini both note the man's force and condemn the European imperialist greed that, in Iqbal's reading, fascism merely laid bare.
Related words
URDU
Imperialism
Imperialism, colonial domination (Arabic isti'mar). Iqbal indicted European empire as the political face of soulless materialism — plunder dressed as civilizing mission.
ARABIC
Qaumiyat
Nationality, nationhood, nationalism.
PERSIAN
Farang
The land of the Franks — Europe and the West; in Iqbal the emblem of dazzling but soulless modern civilisation and material power.