Top 20 Public Intellectuals (First 10 are Muslim!)

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Top 100 Public Intellectuals FOREIGN POLICY (US )and Prospect(UK) will publish the results of the poll on 2008 June 23.

In 20 public Intellectuals First 10 From Muslims! : 

In 20 public Intellectuals First 10 From Muslims!

Top 20 Public IntellectualsIn world : 

Top 20 Public IntellectualsIn world Fethullah Gülen Muhammad Yunus Yusuf Al-Qaradawi Orhan Pamuk Aitzaz Ahsan Amr Khaled Abdolkarim Soroush Tariq Ramadan Mahmood Mamdani Shirin Ebadi Noam Chomsky Al Gore Bernard Lewis Umberto Eco Ayaan Hirsi Ali Amartya Sen Fareed Zakaria Garry Kasparov Richard Dawkins Mario Vargas Llosa

Fethullah Gülen : 

Fethullah Gülen Religious theorist • Iran Soroush, a former university professor in Tehran and specialist in chemistry, Sufi poetry, and history, is widely considered one of the world’s premier Islamic philosophers. Having fallen afoul of the mullahs thanks to his work with Iran’s democratic activists, he has lately decamped to Europe and the United States, where his essays and lectures on religious philosophy and human rights are followed closely by Iran’s reformist movement.

2.Muhammad Yunus : 

2.Muhammad Yunus Microfinancier, activist • Bangladesh More than 30 years ago, Yunus loaned several dozen poor entrepreneurs in his native Bangladesh a total of $ 27. It was the beginning of a lifetime devoted to fighting poverty through microfinance, efforts that earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Over the years, his Grameen Bank, now operating in more than 100 countries, has loaned nearly $7 billion in small sums to more than 7 million borrowers—97 percent of them women. Ninety-eight percent of the loans have been repaid.

3. YUSUF AL-QARADAWI : 

3. YUSUF AL-QARADAWI Cleric • Egypt/Qatar The host of the popular Sharia and Life TV program on Al Jazeera, Qaradawi issues weekly fatwas on everything from whether Islam forbids all consumption of alcohol (no) to whether fighting U.S. troops in Iraq is a legitimate form of resistance (yes). Considered the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Qaradawi condemned the September 11 attacks, but his pronouncements since, like his justification of suicide attacks, ensure his divisive reputation.

4.Orhan Pamuk : 

4.Orhan Pamuk Novelist • Turkey Part political pundit, part literary celebrity, Pamuk is the foremost chronicler of Turkey’s difficult dance between East and West. His skillfully crafted works lay bare his native country’s thorny relationship with religion, democracy, and modernity, earning him a Nobel Prize in literature in 2006. Three years ago, Pamuk was put on trial for “insulting Turkish identity” after mentioning the Armenian genocide and the plight of Turkey’s Kurds in an interview. The charges were later dropped. Today, Pamuk teaches literature at Columbia University.

5.AITZAZ AHSAN : 

5.AITZAZ AHSAN Lawyer, politician • Pakistan President of Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar Association, Ahsan has been a vocal opponent of President Pervez Musharraf’s rule. When Musharraf dismissed the head of the Supreme Court in March 2007, it was Ahsan who led the legal challenge to reinstate the chief justice and rallied thousands of lawyers who took to the streets in protest. He was arrested several times during the period of emergency rule last year. Today, he is a senior member of the Pakistan Peoples Party, formerly led by Benazir Bhutto, and one of the country’s most recognizable politicians.

6.Amr Khaled : 

6.Amr Khaled Muslim televangelist • Egypt A former accountant turned rock-star evangelist, Khaled preaches a folksy interpretation of modern Islam to millions of loyal viewers around the world. With a charismatic oratory and casual style, Khaled blends messages of cultural integration and hard work with lessons on how to live a purpose-driven Islamic life. Although Khaled got his start in Egypt, he recently moved to Britain to counsel young, second-generation European Muslims.

7.Abdolkarim Soroush : 

7.Abdolkarim Soroush Religious theorist - Iran Soroush, a former university professor in Tehran and specialist in chemistry, Sufi poetry, and history, is widely considered one of the world’s premier Islamic philosophers. Having fallen afoul of the mullahs thanks to his work with Iran’s democratic activists, he has lately decamped to Europe and the United States, where his essays and lectures on religious philosophy and human rights are followed closely by Iran’s reformist movement.

8.Tariq Ramadan : 

8.Tariq Ramadan Philosopher, scholar of Islam Switzerland One of the most well-known and controversial Muslim scholars today, Ramadan embodies the cultural and religious clash he claims to be trying to bridge. His supporters consider him a passionate advocate for Muslim integration in Europe. His critics accuse him of anti-Semitism and having links to terrorists. In 2004, Ramadan was denied a U.S. visa to teach at Notre Dame, after the State Department accused him of donating to Islamic charities linked to Hamas.

9.MAHMOOD MAMDANI : 

9.MAHMOOD MAMDANI Cultural anthropologist • Uganda Born in Uganda to South Asian parents, Mamdani was expelled from the country by Idi Amin in 1972, eventually settling in the United States. His work explores the role of citizenship, identity, and the creation of historical narratives in postcolonial Africa. More recently, he has focused his attention on political Islam and U.S. foreign policy, arguing that modern Islamist terrorism is a byproduct of the privatization of violence in the final years of the Cold War. He teaches at Columbia University.

10.SHIRIN EBADI : 

10.SHIRIN EBADI Lawyer, human rights activist • Iran Iran’s first female judge under the shah, Ebadi founded a pioneering law practice after she was thrown off the bench by Iran’s clerical rulers. Having initially supported the Islamic Revolution, she cut her teeth defending political dissidents and campaigning for the rights of women and children. A fierce nationalist who sees no incompatibility between Islam and democracy, Ebadi became the first Iranian to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.

15.AYAAN HIRSI ALI : 

15.AYAAN HIRSI ALI Activist, politician • Somalia/NetherlandsA fierce critic of Islam’s treatment ofwomen, the Somalia-born Hirsi Ali is knownfor her full-throated defense of the West,reason, and freedom. Her public rebellionagainst her Islamic upbringing has comewith a steep cost: death threats and aroundthe-clock protection. She first receivednotoriety for penning Submission, a filmrenouncing the subjugation of Muslimwomen. (The film’s director, Theo van Gogh,was murdered by a Muslim fanatic inAmsterdam in 2004.) After being elected tothe Dutch parliament in 2003, Hirsi Ali resigned her post three years laterover a scandal involving false information on her citizenship application. AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Journalist, author • United StatesEditor of Newsweek International, Zakaria is one of the most influentialand respected commentators on international affairs. His article “Why DoThey Hate Us?” a Newsweek cover story in the weeks after the September11 attacks, upended the conventional explanations of the day for anuanced discussion of the economic, political, and social forces pullingIslamic societies apart. : 

Journalist, author • United StatesEditor of Newsweek International, Zakaria is one of the most influentialand respected commentators on international affairs. His article “Why DoThey Hate Us?” a Newsweek cover story in the weeks after the September11 attacks, upended the conventional explanations of the day for anuanced discussion of the economic, political, and social forces pullingIslamic societies apart. Fareed Zakaria

Rank 21-50 : 

Rank 21-50 Lee Smolin Jürgen Habermas Salman Rushdie Sari Nusseibeh Slavoj Zizek Vaclav Havel Christopher Hitchens Samuel Huntington Peter Singer Paul Krugman Jared Diamond Pope Benedict XVI Fan Gang Michael Ignatieff Fernando Henrique Cardoso Lilia Shevtsova Charles Taylor Martin Wolf E.O. Wilson Thomas Friedman Bjørn Lomborg Daniel Dennett Francis Fukuyama Ramachandra Guha Tony Judt Steven Levitt Nouriel Roubini Jeffrey Sachs Wang Hui V.S. Ramachandran

Rank 51-100 : 

Rank 51-100 Drew Gilpin Faust Lawrence Lessig J.M. Coetzee Fernando Savater Wole Soyinka Yan Xuetong Steven Pinker Alma Guillermoprieto Sunita Narain Anies Baswedan Michael Walzer Niall Ferguson George Ayittey Ashis Nandy David Petraeus Olivier Roy Lawrence Summers Martha Nussbaum Robert Kagan James Lovelock J. Craig Venter Amos Oz Samantha Power Lee Kuan Yew Hu Shuli Kwame Anthony Appiah Malcolm Gladwell Alexander De Waal Gianni Riotta Daniel Barenboim Thérèse Delpech William Easterly Minxin Pei Richard Posner Ivan Krastev Enrique Krauze Anne Applebaum Rem Koolhaas Jacques Attali Paul Collier Esther Duflo Michael Spence Robert Putnam Harold Varmus Howard Gardner Daniel Kahneman Yegor Gaidar Neil Gershenfeld Alain Finkielkraut Ian Buruma