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]
Syed Farid Alatas | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Malaysian |
| Known for | Research on the East-West dichotomy, decolonization of knowledge, Islamisation of knowledge and Muslim intellectualism |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | National University of Singapore |
Books
edit- 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
edit- ^ "Don laments neglect of Malay as an academic language". Free Malaysia Today.
- ^ 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
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