Syed Farid Al Attas



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.

Syed farid al attas. Syed farid alatas arabic. He is the son of syed hussein alatas 1928 2007 famous malaysian politician and social scientist and nephew of syed muhammad al attas born in 1931 prominent muslim philosopher. Two year old syed farid alatas and three week old sharifah munirah alatas.

Syed farid alatas is professor of sociology at the national university of singapore. The recovery of a lost tradition in sociology routledge 2014. He lectured at the university of malaya in the department of southeast asian studies prior to joining nus.

12 syed hussein is the elder brother of syed muhammad naquib al attas 3 political career syed hussein was among several intellectuals who formed gerakan in 1968 as an offshoot of the defunct labour party. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the traditional islamic sciences and who is equally competent in theology philosophy metaphysics history and literature. There were some errors in the report though.

Syed farid alatas national university of singapore sociology department faculty member. Syed farid alatas june 1961 is a contemporary malaysian sociologist and associate professor of sociology at the national university of singapore. Ibn khaldun makers of islamic civilization delhi.

First al attas should have been spelt as alatas. His areas of interest are the sociology of islam social theory religion and reform and intra and inter religious dialogue. Sociologist syed farid al attas has questioned the need to use english as the medium of instruction for any subject in malaysian schools saying it is enough to teach the language as.

Oxford university press 2013. He is the author of ibn khaldun and applying ibn khaldun. His grandfather sayyid abd allah bin muhsin al attas came from hadhramaut and settled in bogor.

Syed hussein was born in bogor indonesia. Studies sociology academic dependency and social and political thought. The recovery of a lost tradition in sociology.

Syed muhammad naquib al attas born september 5 1931 in bogor java is a prominent contemporary muslim thinker.