Syed Farid Alatas ( ) is a Malaysian author and educator, serving as a professor in the Department of Sociology at the

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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 An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes ca ...

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)

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Living people Malaysian people of Yemeni descent Hadhrami people Malaysian sociologists Academic staff of the University of Malaya Academic staff of the National University of Singapore Johns Hopkins University alumni Sociologists of religion Year of birth missing (living people) Ba' Alawi Tribe {{reli-sociologist-stub