Introduction: ‘The Last Muslim Intellectual’

I thought if I were to deliver a paper in this conference, I’d say that the first anthropologists were following Alexander the Great, then following Christianity and then Islam. In other words, anthropologists have always camped with world conquerors. Alexander was the best among them, and [the age of] machine the worst. In other words, what is called ‘anthropology’ or ‘ethnography’ etc. have all been there because world conquerors needed to know the people they were going to rule....