Eqbal Ahmad - Critical Outsider in a Turbulent Age

Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung New personal and professional writings amplify the incisive! passionate! and often prophetic analyses of a major thinker of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Schaar, Schaar Stuart, Stuart Schaar
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2015
• EAN: 9780231171564
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17156-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, International Relations, Middle East, Political activism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Biography: historical, political and military, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Political activism / Political engagement, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Arab & Middle Eastern, biography; Middle East; history