Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (
Hoodbhoy taught physics at Quaid-e-Azam University (formerly Islamabad University) from 1973 to 2020 but in between also taught sociology in addition to physics and math[10] in Lahore as well as LUMS.[11] He was visiting professor at several US universities and laboratories and is currently (2021–2025) adjunct professor physics at the University of New Brunswick.
Since 1989 Hoodbhoy has headed Mashal Books in Lahore, a publishing house that claims to be a leading "translation effort to produce books in Urdu that promote modern thought, human rights, and emancipation of women". He initiated and co‐directed (1988–1990) the World Laboratory Project on Cosmology and High Energy Physics in Pakistan. Hoodbhoy is a sponsor of the
Awards for Hoodbhoy include the
On 14 April 2001, the Pakistan government announced that Hoodbhoy had been selected for receiving the
Early and personal life
Hoodbhoy was born and raised in
Education
Hoodbhoy attended the Karachi Grammar School in Karachi for his initial schooling.[29] After graduating, at the age of 19, Hoodbhoy went to the United States to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a scholarship.[30] During his undergraduate years he worked in restaurants, various odd jobs, and as a campus janitor to support his studies.
At MIT Hoodbhoy received three degrees simultaneously in 1973. These were
Career
Professional
Hoodbhoy's PhD research was in nuclear physics but much of his later work focused on the quark-gluon structure of nuclei, quantum chromodynamics, and particle phenomenology. In particular this included the spin structure of nuclei and quark-gluon components of the proton's spin as measured in various hard processes. He has also published papers seeking to link ADS/CFT and extra space-time dimensions with certain nuclear phenomena. His other works touch on quantum hydrodynamics, Berry phases, skyrmion physics, and quantum Hall phenomena.
In 1981 Hoodbhoy accepted an offer for
From 2011 to 2013 Hoodbhoy was at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) as professor of physics during which period he made summer visits as a researcher to
Social Activism
Hoodbhoy points to Noam Chomsky, whose courses and lectures he had attended as an undergraduate at MIT, as a major influence upon his political philosophy. So also was the scholar-activist and public intellectual, Eqbal Ahmad, which whom he developed a life-long friendship.[35] In the early 1970s Hoodbhoy worked actively with People's Labour Federation, a progressive trade union in Rawalpindi and was part of an independent Marxist group at Islamabad University headed by Professor Faheem Husain. With the advent of martial law in 1977 all union activity was banned and progressive activities forced underground.
Away from his specialized field of research, Hoodbhoy writes and speaks on a variety of topics and is a self-described liberal.[36] New Scientist wrote that he was "Pakistan’s Voice of Reason"[37] while Physics Today described him as fierce opponent of pseudoscience and a global citizen.[38] He has sharply criticized efforts to merge religion with science; the politicization of Islam and growth of religious extremism; Pakistan's blasphemy law; military dictators and their surrogates in Pakistan; the subjugation of Pakistani women; the takeover of the educational process by religious forces; and opposed jihad for liberating Kashmir and fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Provoked by General Zia-ul-Haq's extreme measures to create a new Islamic science, Hoodbhoy authored Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality with a preface by physics Nobel Laureate, Abdus Salam.[39] This was subsequently translated into 8 languages. The book contends that the rise of Muslim science owed to Muslim openness in an earlier phase of Islam but subsequent closing of the Muslim mind led to the demise of all intellectual production.[40] Hoodbhoy has continued to insist that attitudinal reasons, not paucity of resources, are responsible for the stagnation of the sciences in Islam.[41] Salam and Hoodbhoy jointly authored an essay in 1984 that critiqued Eurocentric claims to developing science.[42]
Salam, an Ahmadi, is reviled in Pakistan for his religious beliefs. In his defence, Hoodbhoy has taken to the media repeatedly.[43] He also features prominently in the video documentary "Salam – the first ****** Nobel Laureate"[44] and is among the notable signatories of the Humanist Manifesto.[45]
In 1996 Hoodbhoy, together with his colleague A.H Nayyar, successfully stopped the sale of Quaid-e-Azam University's land to politicians and professors, invoking a strong counter-reaction.[46] However, his subsequent attempts to preserve the land from politicians failed.[47] He has been the leading critic of Pakistan's Higher Education Commission whose policies, he contends, have incentivized academic corruption[48] and created a professor mafia.[49]
Though I know that it is not welcome in my country and people who deviate from the notion that it is an Islamic state, are looked upon disapprovingly, I strongly feel that's what we need to head towards.
Anti-nuclear Activism
While at MIT Hoodbhoy studied under physicists such as Victor Weisskopf, Philip Morrison, and Bernard Feld from the 1940s Manhattan Project. Their influence helped turn him into becoming the leading voice against the development of nuclear weapons both by India and Pakistan.[50] In 1996, at the behest of Dr. A.Q. Khan, his activism led to his name being placed on the Exit Control List.[51] In 2013 he was the major contributor and editor of Confronting The Bomb – Pakistani And Indian Scientists Speak Out. He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, based at Princeton University.
Filmography
From 1991 to 2004 Hoodbhoy hosted and authored three major 13-part documentary series in Urdu on Pakistan Television on popular science and education. To date these have been the only science documentaries produced by PTV. In 2003 he was the recipient of UNESCO's 2003 Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science.
Following the nuclear tests of India and Pakistan, Hoodbhoy hosted and produced a 30-minute documentary "Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow" (2001). With help from Zia Mian, this was followed by a longer documentary on the Kashmir dispute in 2004. It has been the only documentary produced in Pakistan so far that considers the narratives of all three protagonists and is titled, "Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India".[52]
Publications
Books
- Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future, published by Routledge (London, New York), 2023.
- Confronting the Bomb – Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out, (edited) Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Education and the State – Fifty Years of Pakistan, (edited) Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Islam & Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, published by ZED Books, London, in 1991 with translations in Turkish, Malaysian, Indonesian, Arabic, Spanish, Sindhi, and Urdu.
- Proceedings of School on Fundamental Physics and Cosmology, co-edited with A. Ali, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.
Scientific papers and articles
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez (30 March 2006). "Two-photon effects in lepton-antilepton pair photoproduction from a nucleon target using real photons". Physical Review D. 73 (5): 054027. S2CID 15290218.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong; Yuan, Feng (6 January 2004). "Probing Quark-Distribution Amplitudes through Generalized Parton Distributions at Large Momentum Transfer". Physical Review Letters. 92 (1): 012003. S2CID 5072354.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez (11 March 2002). "Explicit proof that electroproduction of transversely polarized mesons vanishes in perturbative QCD". Physical Review D. 65 (7). American Physical Society (APS): 077501. S2CID 17897431.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong (12 November 1999). "Does the gluon spin contribute in a gauge-invariant way to nucleon spin?". Physical Review D. 60 (11). American Physical Society (APS): 114042. S2CID 7303675.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez (21 June 1999). "Nucleon-Quarkonium Elastic Scattering and the Gluon Contribution to Nucleon Spin". Physical Review Letters. 82 (25): 4985–4987. S2CID 118954202.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong; Lu, Wei (26 February 1999). "Implications of color gauge symmetry for nucleon spin structure". Physical Review D. 59 (7). American Physical Society (APS): 074010. S2CID 15840748.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong; Lu, Wei (25 November 1998). "Quark orbital-angular-momentum distribution in the nucleon". Physical Review D. 59 (1). American Physical Society (APS): 014013. S2CID 7279810.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong (29 July 1998). "Helicity-flip off-forward parton distributions of the nucleon". Physical Review D. 58 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 054006. S2CID 12396834.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 July 1997). "Wave function corrections and off-forward gluon distributions in diffractive J/ψ electroproduction". Physical Review D. 56 (1). American Physical Society (APS): 388–393. S2CID 14223211.
- Yusuf, Mohammad Ali; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 September 1996). "Relativistic and binding energy corrections to direct photon production in ϒ decay". Physical Review D. 54 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 3345–3349. S2CID 16600178.
- Khan, Hafsa; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1996). "Beyond the colour-singlet model for inelastic J photoproduction". Physics Letters B. 382 (1–2). Elsevier BV: 189–195. S2CID 18979548.
- Ji, Xiangdong; Tang, Jian; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (29 January 1996). "Spin Structure of the Nucleon in the Asymptotic Limit". Physical Review Letters. 76 (5): 740–743. S2CID 18799685.
- Ali, Rafia; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 March 1995). "Novel approach to decays, gluon distributions, and fragmentation functions of heavy quarkonia". Physical Review D. 51 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 2302–2310. S2CID 10503189.
- Nzar, Muhammad; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 January 1995). "Quark fragmentation functions in a diquark model for proton and Λ hyperon production". Physical Review D. 51 (1): 32–36. S2CID 14932833.
- Khan, Hafsa; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 March 1996). "Systematic gauge-invariant approach to heavy quarkonium decays". Physical Review D. 53 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 2534–2540. S2CID 14496485.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong (1 October 1994). "Twist-four distributions in a transversely polarized nucleon and the Drell-Yan process". Physical Review D. 50 (7). American Physical Society (APS): 4429–4435. S2CID 13071396.
- Detecting Two-Photon Exchange Effects in Hard Scattering from Nucleon Targets, in ISBN 978-981-270-591-4
- Abdus Salam: Past and Present- The News (29 January 1996)
- Generalized Parton Distributions, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad
Appearances in TV shows
- Raaste Ilm ke (Pathways to Knowledge) on PTV, 1988
- Asrar-e-Jahan (Mysteries of the Universe) on PTV, 1995
- Bazm-e-Kainat (Gathering of all Creation) on PTV, 2003
- Alif on Geo TV. Debate with Jawed Ghamidi, 2006
- Aik Din Geo Kay Saath on Geo TV, February 2010
- Capital Talk on Geo TV, 29 August 2012
- Among the Believers (Netflix), 2015
- Salam-The first Nobel laureate (Netflix) 2018
See also
Notes
- ^ [1], Curriculum vitae of Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
- ^ "Ram Mandir – an ill portent".
- ^ Notezai, Muhammad Akbar. "Interview: Pervez Hoodbhoy". thediplomat.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Calling Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy 'jahil' can only happen in Pakistan". The Express Tribune. 30 October 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ Story of Pervez Hoodbhoy - Episode 1 - Lt Gen (R) Amjad Shoaib, retrieved 6 December 2023
- ^ No, Gen. Shoaib, I'm Not A Traitor – Part One, retrieved 6 December 2023
- ^ "In Islamic Pakistan, physicist and global citizen Pervez Hoodbhoy takes advantage of a January media spotlight". pubs.aip.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Physics/Math Tutorials by Pervez Hoodbhoy – The Black Hole". Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Physics Math Tutorials".
- ^ "Physics". web.archive.org. 13 February 2015. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "LUMS SSE | VPDT". shoaworks.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "BoS - Pervez Hoodbhoy". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, 46th session [electronic resource] : the role of science in the third millennium..., "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August 2013 in SearchWorks catalog". searchworks.stanford.edu. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Member (Pervez HOODBHOY) | Asia-Pacific Leadership Network". apln.network. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Pervez Hoodbhoy". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "News stories for Pervez Hoodbhoy - DAWN.COM". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Pervez Hoodbhoy - Prospect Magazine". prospectmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Pervez Hoodbhoy, Author at The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Abdus Salam Award". scientificlib.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ Sciences (TWAS), The World Academy of (17 December 2023). "TWAS Regional Awards". TWAS. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Mayer Award Recipients | Tufts Global Leadership". tuftsgloballeadership.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Prize Recipient". aps.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ Staff, F. P. (18 December 2023). "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Replacements for Outgoing Members of Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters | UN Press". press.un.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Pervez Hoodbhoy's Citation | Graduation at UBC". graduation.ubc.ca. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Deterrence will not always work". Frontline. 7 June 2002. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Pervez". Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
- ^ "Pervez Hoodbhoy: Aik Din Geo Kay Sath" – via YouTube.
- ^ "CV of Pervez Hoodbhoy".
- ^ "Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy fired from LUMS".
- ^ "Hoodbhoy resigns from FC College after administration terms contract 'non-renewable'". The Express Tribune. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy - Why I Resigned from Forman Christian College, retrieved 22 December 2023
- ^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Said, Edward W. "Confronting Empire". haymarketbooks.org. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ Notezai, Muhammad Akbar. "Interview: Pervez Hoodbhoy". thediplomat.com. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "Interview: Pakistan's voice of reason".
- ^ "In Islamic Pakistan, physicist and global citizen Pervez Hoodbhoy takes advantage of a January media spotlight".
- ^ bloomsbury.com. "Islam and Science". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ Quarterly, Middle East; Pp. 69-74 (1 January 2010). "Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy: "Islam and Science Have Parted Ways"". Middle East Quarterly.
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- ^ "Book Preface by Abdus Salam and Hoodbhoy" (PDF).
- ^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez (7 November 2020). "Salam's face blackened". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ Kamalakar, Anand (6 January 2018), Salam - The First ****** Nobel Laureate (Documentary), retrieved 22 December 2023
- ^ "Notable Signers". web.archive.org. 5 October 2012. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "A state and its death sentences". Himal Southasian. 1 July 1996. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez (29 December 2018). "QAU's land is PTI's litmus test". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez (29 November 2014). "Misjudging universities". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 July 2017). "Pakistan's professor mafia". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "Margolis Lecture - Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy". socsci.uci.edu. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "A Hero's Meltdown".
- ^ "Margolis Lecture - Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy". socsci.uci.edu. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
Further reading
- (in German) Kaznain, Hazim. "Pakistanischer Atomphysiker: "Muslimische Gesellschaften sind kollektiv gescheitert" (Archive). Der Spiegel. Monday 28 January 2013. Interview with Hoodbhoy.
External links
- A complete repository of Pervez Hoodbhoy's articles in the making
- Profile, QAU
- Pervez Hoodbhoy's recent articles for Z Magazine
- Pervez Hoodbhoy's articles for the website Chowk.com
- Pervez Hoodbhoy's research papers
- Science and the Islamic world—The quest for rapprochement, Pervez Hoodbhoy, American Institute of Physics, August 2007
- Video Presentation: "Sacred Terror: Theirs and Ours." Professor Hoodbhoy speaking at the University of Illinois, October 2007.
- Pakistan's westward drift – article by P Hoodbhoy lamenting the rising tide of militant Islamin Pakistan
- Islamic Failure – 2002 article by P Hoodbhoy, first published in The Washington Post and reprinted in Prospect