Syed Farid al-Attas
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Syed Farid Alatas | |
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Nationality | Malaysian |
Known for | Research on the East-West dichotomy, decolonization of knowledge, Islamisation of knowledge and |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology |
Institutions | National University of Singapore |
Syed Farid Alatas (Arabic: سيد فريد العطاس Sayyid Farīd al-ʿAṭṭās) is a Malaysian author and educator, serving as a professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.[1][2][3]
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, 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[]
- ^ On the Future of Islamic Intellectualism Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Syed Farid Alatas Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Islamic Perspective Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
Categories:
- Living people
- Malaysian people of Yemeni descent
- Hadhrami people
- Malaysian sociologists
- Academics of the University of Malaya
- National University of Singapore faculty
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- Sociologists of religion
- Malaysian people stubs
- Religious studies scholar stubs
- Sociologist stubs