Alatas, Hussein, Syed, 1928-2007
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Name (Latin)
Alatas, Hussein, Syed, 1928-2007
Other forms of name
Alatas, Hussein, Syed, 1928-
Syed Hussein Alatas, 1928-
Hussein Alatas, Syed, 1928-
Husain al-Attas, Syed, 1928-
Syed Husain al-Attas, 1928-
Attas, Husain, Syed, 1928-
Hussain Alatas, Datoʾ Syed, 1928-
Datoʾ Syed Hussain Alatas, 1928-
Datoʾ Syed Hussein Alatas, 1928-
Date of birth
1928-09-17
Date of death
2007-01-23
Associated country
Malaysia
Field of activity
Political science
Social sciences
Sociology
Occupation
College teachers
Sociologists
Associated Language
may
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
Prof. Dr.
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- His Reflections on the theories of religion, 1963.
- Kemana dengan Islam, 2002:t.p. (Syed Hussein Alatas) p. v (Prof. Datoʾ Syed Hussain Alatas) p. 132 (Prof. Datoʾ Dr. Syed Hussein Alatas; b. Sept. 17, 1928 in Bogor, Indonesia; Ph.D. in sains politik dan sosial, Univ. Amsterdam, 1963; prof. in Inst. Alam dan TamadunMelayu, Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia since 1999)
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Wikipedia description:
Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas (Arabic: سيد حسین العطاس Sayyid Ḥusayn al-ʿAṭṭās; 17 September 1928 – 23 January 2007) was a Malaysian academic, sociologist, politician, and founder of social science organisations. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote several books on corruption, multi-racialism, imperialism, and intellectual captivity as part of the colonial, and postcolonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.
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