Syed Hussein Alatas

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Syed Hussein Alatas (born September 17, 1928 in Bogor , Indonesia ; died January 23, 2007 in Kuala Lumpur ) was a Malaysian social scientist and politician . He taught as a professor of Malay Studies in Kuala Lumpur. He received his education at the University of Amsterdam . He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s and one of the founders of Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). His grandfather came from Hadramaut in Yemen and settled in Bogor. Syed Hussein was the older brother of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas and the father of Syed Farid al-Attas.

In his book The Myth of the Lazy Native ( The myth of the lazy native ) gave Alatas a sociological analysis of Orientalism , with a focus on the Malay, Filipino and Javanese population from the 16th to the 20th century, the function of this myth in colonial Capitalism. "If the Malaysians weren't working, Alatas wondered, what did they live on?"

Publications (selection)

  • The Myth of the Lazy Native: a study of the image of the Malays, Filipinos and Javanese from the 16th to the 20th century and its function in the ideology of colonial capitalism . London 1977
  • Corruption and the Destiny of Asia . 1999
  • The sociology of corruption: the nature, function, causes and prevention of corruption. Singapore: Times Books Internat., 1980
  • Intellectuals in developing societies. London: Cass, 1977
  • Some comments on Islam and social change in Malaysia . In: Religion, Culture and Social Change (1969), pp. 133–140
  • Reflections on the theories of religion . 's-Gravenhage: Pasmans, 1963
  • The democracy of Islam: a concise exposition with comparative reference to western political thought. The Hague [u. a.]: van Hoeve, 1956

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Partial online view on GoogleBooks
  2. ^ Z. Sardar, p. 95

literature

  • Shawkat M. Toorawa: Syed Hussein Alatas , in: John Charles Hawley: (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. 2001, p. 13 ff. ( Partial online view )
  • Ziauddin Sardar : The Foreign Orient: History of a Prejudice. Berlin 2002 (Wagenbach's paperback 451)

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personal data
SURNAME Alatas, Syed Hussein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dato Syed Hussein Alatas; Hussein Alatas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Malaysian social scientist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogor , Indonesia
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2007
Place of death Kuala Lumpur