Global public Intellectuals Poll
Written by Haitham Sabbah on 31. October 2005, 2214hrs // Part of Haitham Sabbah's adventure in Good News, Media, Sabbah // Other posts by Haitham Sabbah
So who won the Prospect/FP Global public intellectuals poll? It’s Noam Chomsky, with amazing 4827 votes out of the 20,000 people voted for their top five names from a longlist of 100.
Shirin Ebadi - the Iranian human rights and democracy activist, and a lawyer - who was awarded 2003’s Nobel Peace Prize, came 12th. While Pope Benedict XVI in 17th position, Ali al-Sistani in 30th, the Somali lady, Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 46th, the modern Muslim scholar and preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi in 56th, the Islamic academic and scholar, Tariq Ramadan in 58th, the Palestinian professor of philosophy and president of the Arab Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, Sari Nusseibeh in 65th.
If someone is missing from that list, I would say it should be the lay preacher Amr Khaled.
More about the Toll list and the analysis of its result. [Hat Tip: Foulla]
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November 1st, 2005 at 3:25 pm
I’m not sure if Amr Khaled can be categorized in the same group as the rest of the people listed. He’s not really an intellectual… he’s a “lay preacher” as you correctly point out. All the others are trained scholars in their respective disciplines.
Some very interesting survery results though.
November 1st, 2005 at 6:31 pm
Amr Khaled? This guy is huge. I heard he had to relocate to Lebanon because of the waves he was making in Egypt? Someone said he got Mubarak’s daughter to put on her hijab? He is a great speaker. Theyguys where I go to Friday prayers with talk about him all of the time.
November 2nd, 2005 at 3:49 am
I don’t know what type of people were polled that more than 1,000 of them think that Paul Wolfowitz is an “intellectual.”
November 7th, 2005 at 2:28 pm
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