Intellectuals - Muslim, Asian, Chinese

Intellectuals of the World

The top 10 are all Muslims - two from the Subcontinent, one Subcontinental from Africa, the rest from the Middle East

The World’s Top 20 Public Intellectuals - Foreign Policy

"How Could You Not Include..." - Foreign Policy

Yoichi Funabashi - one non-Muslim Asian on the not included list - Japan, ICG

Intellectuals—the results , all 100 - Prospect



Two Turks

Turkey's most important political voice

Orhan Pamuk - Wikipedia

Writing against himself - Prospect

The modern face of Sufi Ottomanism

Fethullah Gülen - Wikipedia

The real Fethullah Gülen - Prospect

A modern Ottoman - Prospect

How Gülen triumphed - Prospect


Chinese Intellectuals

China’s New Leftist , by Pankaj Mishra - NYT

China's new intelligentsia , by Mark Leonard - Prospect

What does China think? , book by Mark Leonard