Hadi Al-`Alawi: remains unknown in Western Middle Eastern studies

"It was in the 1960s that al-‘Alawi began his career as a prolific writer, exploring turath through a new prism that highlighted its “subversive” elements, particularly with regard to class conflict, the role of the intellectual and his relation to the state, the relationship between language and the subconscious, anti-clericalism, history and myth, feminism, the modernization of the Arabic language and, later, the necessity of spiritualizing or indigenizing the application of communism. A sampling of his subsequent works -- nearly 20 in total -- such as Chapters from Islam’s Political History, Unnerved Figures in Islam, Political Assassination in Islam, From the Lexicon of Heritage and The Seen and the Unseen in Politics and Literature serves to capture the breadth and profundity of his intellectual  interests and his thorough familiarity with classical Islamic and Arabic culture and history." (thanks Mohammed)