He earned his bachelor's and master's in physics from the University of Dhaka in 1976 and then went to the University of Washington to earn his Ph.D. Iqbal passed the SSC exam from Bogra Zilla School in 1968 and the HSC exam from Dhaka College in 1970. He has three sisters - Sufia Haider, Momtaz Shahid and Rukhsana Ahmed. His younger brother, Ahsan Habib, is a cartoonist who is serving as the editor of the satirical magazine, Unmad. His elder brother, Humayun Ahmed, was a prominent writer and filmmaker. He spent his childhood in different parts of Bangladesh because of the transferring nature of his father's job. His father, Faizur Rahman Ahmed, was a police officer who was killed in the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet of the then East Pakistan.
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