Kassim Ahmad | |
|---|---|
| قاسم أحمد | |
| Born | 9 September 1933 |
| Died | 10 October 2017 (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 |
Kassim Ahmad (9 September 1933 – 10 October 2017)[2] 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.[3]