Prospect Magazine Intellectuals
Have you seen Foreign Policy and Prospect’s Top 100 Intellectuals of the World list?
SEE THE TOP 20.
List: the 100 leading intellectuals
World’s top thinkers by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines
•guardian.co.uk,
•Monday June 23 2008 11.37 BST
1 Fethullah Gulen – Moslem
2 Muhammad Yunus – Moslem
3 Yusuf al-Qaradawi – Moslem
4 Orhan Pamuk – Moslem
5 Aitzaz Ahsan – Moslem
6 Amr Khaled – Moslem
7 Abdolkarim Soroush – Moslem
8 Tariq Ramadan – Moslem
9 Mahmood Mamdani – Moslem
10 Shirin Ebadi – Moslem
11 Noam Chomsky – Jew
12 Al Gore – Christian
13 Bernard Lewis – ?
14 Umberto Eco – ?
15 Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Atheist
16 Amartya Sen – Hindu
17 Fareed Zakaria – Moslem
18 Garry Kasparov – Orthodox
19 Richard Dawkins – Atheist
20 Mario Vargas Llosa – ?
What does that tell you about the list?
I haven’t heard of most of the people on the list, but the fact that al gore is even in the top 100 makes me think that the list isn’t worth listening to.
Turkish Scholar Listed Among Top Intellectuals