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A special luxury edition of poems by Muhammad Iqbal (1877 - 1938) has been donated to the library of the South Asia Institute. The edition is illustrated by the famous calligrapher Abdur Rahman Chughtai and had belonged to Klaus Natorp, a journalist who wrote for the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) on South Asia. Natorp had received this rare edition personally from the former president of Pakistan Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924 - 1988) and it includes a handwritten dedication by the president to the previous owner. For further information regarding the donation see also the press release by Heidelberg University.