Sheikh Mohammad Iqbal is a Kashmiri educationist, academician, Islamic scholar, and historian. A globally acknowledged scholar on Islamic History and Arab-Islamic issues, Iqbal is considered an authority on Saudi Arabia and (was) a friend of Late King Faisal bin Abd al-Aziz. He has written over forty books including his five-volume History of Islam and Muslims and numerous research papers and articles published in the local, national, and international journals.