Eqbal Ahmad : critical outsider in a turbulent age / Stuart Schaar.
By: Schaar, Stuart.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]Description: xii, 216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780231171564 (cloth : acidfree paper).Subject(s): Ahmad, Eqbal | Political activists -- United States -- Biography | Political activists -- Pakistan -- Biography | Journalists -- Biography | Political scientists -- Biography | Pacifists -- Biography | World politics -- 1945-1989 | World politics -- 1989- | Islam and politics -- History -- 20th century | Social change -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | JC273.A49 S34 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000006140 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eqbal's life -- Reflections on Eqbal's life -- Polemics -- Islam and Islamic history -- Imperialism, nationalism, revolutionary warfare, insurgency, and the need for democracy -- The Middle East and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict -- India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh : the problem of nuclear proliferation and views on partitioning states -- Critique of U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and terrorism.
"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.