Aijaz Ahmad

Aijaz Ahmad ( – 9 March 2022) was an Indian-born Marxist philosopher, literary theorist, and political commentator. He was the Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Humanities’ Department of Comparative Literature.

Biography Aijaz Ahmad was born in Muzaffarnagar, British Raj in 1941.

Work In his book In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, Ahmad primarily discusses the role of theory and theorists in the movement against colonialism and imperialism.

Personal life Ahmad died in Irvine, California, on 9 March 2022, at age 81. He was hospitalised for age-related ailments and had returned home only a few days prior to his death. Rutgers University law professor Adil Ahmad Haque is his son.