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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.

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

External links

• "Decolonising Universities" on YouTube
• Goodreads

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