Eqbal Ahmad
Subtitle: Critical Outsider in a Turbulent Age
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780231171564
Subjects: Political activists; Journalists, biography; Political scientists; Pacifists; World politics, 20th century; Islam and politics; Social change; Pakistan, biography; United states, biography
Description: "Activist, journalist, and theorist, Eqbal Ahmad was admired by and consulted by activists and policymakers. He inspired new ways of thinking about militant Islam, the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and the Cold War. This intellectual biography relates Ahmad's life to the political transformations that occurred globally in the second half of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.