Syed Farid al-Attas

Syed Farid Alatas (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)