Hamza Alavi: Third World Thinker and Activist

摘要

Hamza Alavi was a thinker, a political activist and, above all, a teacher. History will remember him for his theories on the post-colonial state and related socio-political classes, peasant organization and movements, and analysis of the Pakistan movement. Perhaps more than anything at this time, he should be remembered for having addressed, well before 9/11 and the current global turmoil around the struggles within Islam, issues of religion in Muslim societies.