Talk:Eqbal Ahmad

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A fact from Eqbal Ahmad appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 February 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 1971, Pakistani writer Eqbal Ahmad was indicted on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/February.

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Comments[edit]

isnt it spelled Iqbal?

Google results for "Iqbal Ahmad" : 1,820 and google results for "Eqbal Ahmad": 4,510. Perl 21:45, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

He published under the name "Eqbal Ahmad". -- Rbellin 01:28, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

As a young man he used to spell his first name, somewhat idiosyncratically, Egbal (with a G), but for most of his life it was Eqbal -- always with an E, never with an I.

Link[edit]

I have removed this link:

A tribute to Eqbal Ahmad, by Edward W. Said

which was not working anymore. --Lionni 14:53, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have inserted the following link:

Eqbal Ahmad, by Edward W. Said which may or may not be the same as the removed link.

Can someone provide family details[edit]

The page is missing details on his family of origin and of marriage. All I have been able to find is:

Eqbal Ahmad was born in the state of Bihar, India in 1932. When he was 4, his father was killed in a land dispute; in 1948, during the partition of India, he and his family (who were Muslims) moved to Lahore, Pakistan. He attended Foreman Christian College in Lahore, then came to Occidental College in California on a Rotary scholarship in the mid-1950s. He entered Princeton in 1958, where he obtained his doctorate in 1965. He taught at Cornell in the 1960s, was appointed a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs, at the University of Chicago, and later joined the Washington Institute for Policy Studies. He was the first directory of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He married Julie Diamond in 1969, and had one daughter, Dohra.

Source: http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/hampshire/mah7_bioghist.html

Can someone who knows more provide details? Thanks.

Year of birth[edit]

The article says he was born in 1933 or 1934; the LC authority file says he was born either in 1932 or 1933; is there a way to get a more definitive answer?; LC got their information from the publisher, so I figure the publisher had spoken with the author.--FeanorStar7 (talk) 10:44, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The answer is no, and the current date of 1933 in the article is likely inaccurate as the subject said he thought it might be 1934, but didn’t know for sure. So this needs to be corrected in some way or another. Viriditas (talk) 01:34, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]