Kassim Ahmad
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Kassim Ahmad (9 September 1933 – 10 October 2017)[1] was a Malaysian Muslim philosopher, intellectual, writer, poet and an educator. He was also a socialist politician in the early days of Malaya and later Malaysia and was detained without trial from 1976 to 1981 under Malaysia's Internal Security Act.[2]
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Kassim Ahmad | |
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قاسم أحمد | |
Born | (1933-09-09)9 September 1933 |
Died | 10 October 2017(2017-10-10) (aged 84) |
Alma mater | University of Malaya |
Spouse | Sharifah Fauziah binti Yussof Alsaggof |
Era | Contemporary Islamic philosophy |
Region | Islamic Philosophy |
Main interests | Islamic Philosophy, Existentialism, Novelist |
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