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Syed Farid al-Attas

Syed Farid al-Attas

Malaysian sociologist

Syed Farid Alatas (Arabic: سيد فريد العطاس Sayyid Farīd al-ʿAṭṭās) is a Malaysian author and educator,[1] serving as a professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.[2][3][4]

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Books

  • Ibn Khaldun (Makers of Islamic Civilization), Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013
  • Applying Ibn Khaldun: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology (Routledge), 2014
  • An Islamic Perspective on the Commitment to Inter-Religious Dialogue, Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies Malaysia, 2008
  • Alternative Discourses in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentrism, Delhi: Sage, 2006
  • Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State, (Macmillan, 1997
  • The post-colonial state: Dual functions in the public sphere (Department of Sociology working papers), National University of Singapore, 1994
  • Asian Inter-Faith Dialogue: Perspectives on Religion, Education and Social Cohesion (edited) (Centre for Research on Islamic and Malay Affairs, 2003)
  • Asian Anthropology, edited with Jan van Bremen and Eyal Ben-Ari (Routledge, 2005)

References

  1. [1]
    "Don laments neglect of Malay as an academic language". Free Malaysia Today.
  2. [2]
    On the Future of Islamic Intellectualism Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    Syed Farid Alatas Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
  4. [4]
    Islamic Perspective Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine


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