Syed Farid al-Attas explained

Syed Farid Alatas
Nationality:	Malaysian
Known For:	Research on the East-West dichotomy, decolonization of knowledge, Islamisation of knowledge and Muslim intellectualism
Field:	Sociology
Work Institutions:	National University of Singapore

Syed Farid Alatas (Arabic: سيد فريد العطاس) 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]}

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)

External links

• • Goodreads

Notes and References

1. News: Don laments neglect of Malay as an academic language . Free Malaysia Today.
2. http://www.interactive.net.in/node/30 On the Future of Islamic Intellectualism
3. http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/soc/faculty/sfalatas.html Syed Farid Alatas
4. http://www.pdx.edu/sites/www.pdx.edu.sociologyofislam/files/IslamicPerspective12-2009.pdf Islamic Perspective