Syed Farid Alatas

Syed Farid Alatas, based in Kuala Lumpur, is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. He is also Visiting Professor at the Department of Anthropology & Sociology, University of Malaya, and Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Ibn Haldun University. He has authored numerous books and articles, including Ibn Khaldun (Oxford University Press, 2013); Applying Ibn Khaldun: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology (Routledge, 2014), and (with Vineeta Sinha) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon (Palgrave, 2017). His areas of interest are social theory, religion and reform, intra- and inter-religious dialogue, and the study of Eurocentrism.