Tariq Ali

Ali rose to prominence in the New Left of the 1960s, marched against the Vietnam War and testified at the Russell Tribunal, and has long been associated with the New Left Review. His books include Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002) and The Duel (2008), and his memoirs appeared in two volumes: Street Fighting Years (1987) and You Can't Please All (2024). He has lived in London since the 1960s. ^{1 2}

Ali grew up in a secular family that was "more culturally Muslim than religious" — family background, which is not an attestation. His own position he stated himself: in his bylined column in The Guardian of 13 February 2006 he wrote, "I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers", and the English article's personal-life section records that he "describes himself as an atheist", citing Hunter Davies's interview with him in The Independent (1994) alongside the Guardian column. Wikidata's religion value (atheism) points the same way but is not counted as a source. It is noted that the Arabic article's lead labels him a "secular Muslim" (مسلم علماني); that is one edition's editorial label, unsupported in its text by any source naming an affiliation, and it is preserved in his record rather than followed, since his own unambiguous first-person words in two independent places meet the museum's bar for documented unbelief. ^{1 3 4}

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