Syed Hussein Alatas
Syed Hussein Alatas (September 17, 1928 – January 23, 2007) was a Malaysian academician, sociologist, founder of social science organizations, and former politician. He was once 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 post colonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.
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Mazen Kerbaj
Mazen Kerbaj was born in 1975 in Beirut and lived there since. His main activities are comics, painting and music.
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Walid Jumblatt Abdullah
Walid Jumblatt Abdullah is a PhD candidate under the Joint Degree Program between National University of Singapore and King's College, London. He works on state and religion relations, Southeast Asian politics, and political parties and elections. His works have been published in journals including Asian Survey, Journal of Church and State, and Government and Opposition.
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Za'ba
Zainal Abidin Ahmad, juga dikenali sebagai Za'ba merupakan seorang sasterawan dan pemikir Melayu keturunan Minangkabau yang giat menulis sekitar tahun 1940-an. Berdasarkan pencapaiannya dalam bidang kesusasteraan, beliau merupakan salah seorang budak kampung yang berjaya meletakkan dirinya sebagai seorang tokoh yang terkemuka dalam sejarah Malaysia.
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Beliau merupakan seorang cendekiawan Melayu yang dihormati dan selama hampir 40 tahun, aktif dalam kegiatan penulisan termasuk penterjemahan. Aktiviti beliau juga tertumpu kepada penerbitan buku sekolah dan bacaan umum di Biro Penterjemahan, Maktab Perguruan Sultan Idris.
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Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American left as a consistent critic of U.S. foreign
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.
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Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican fact -
Mortimer J. Adler
Numerous published works of American educator and philosopher Mortimer Jerome Adler include How to Read a Book (1940) and The Conditions of Philosophy (1965).
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This popular author worked with thought of Aristotle and Saint Thomas Aquinas. He lived for the longest stretches in cities of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Mateo. He worked for Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Encyclopædia Britannica, and own institute for philosophical research.
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Neil Postman
Neil Postman, an important American educator, media theorist and cultural critic was probably best known for his popular 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. For more than four decades he was associated with New York University, where he created and led the Media Ecology program.
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He is the author of more than thirty significant books on education, media criticism, and cultural change including Teaching as a Subversive Activity, The Disappearance of Childhood, Technopoly, and Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century.
Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), a historical narrative which warns of a decline in the ability of our mass communications media to share serious ideas. Since television images replace the written word, Postman argues that -
Chairil Anwar
Chairil Anwar was one of the famed figures of the “1945 Generation,” that group of luminaries who brought heat and light to Indonesian literature in the formative years of the new nation.
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Through his poetry, Chairil Anwar succeeded in infusing Indonesian verse with a new spirit and bringing a new enthusiasm to Indonesia’s cultural arena. He also provided friends and acquaintances with never-ending tales to tell of his personal eccentricities, including his hobby of stealing books from the shops, his tendency to plagiarize from foreign poets, his many lovers, his numerous ailments, and his bohemian lifestyle.
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Taha Jabir Al-Alwani
Dr. Taha Jabir al Alwani was born in Iraq in 1354/1935. He received his primary and secondary education in his native land and then graduated with an Honors Degree from the College of Shariah and Law at Al Azhar University in Cairo in 1378/1959. From the same university he was awarded his Master's Degree in 1388/1968, and a Doctorate in Usul al Fiqh in 1392/1973. For ten years (from 1395/1975 to 1405/1985) Dr al 'Alwani was a Professor of Fiqh and Usul al Fiqh at Imam Muhammad b. Sa'ud University in Riyadh. Dr. al 'Alwani participated in the founding of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) in the USA in 1401/1981, and is now the Institute's President and a member of its Board of Trustees. He is a founder-member of the Counc
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Faisal Tehrani
Dr Mohd Faizal Musa adalah penerima Anugerah Seni Negara 2006 oleh kerajaan Malaysia dan Tokoh Penulis Muda Negeri Melaka 2009 oleh Kerajaan Negeri Melaka. Beliau dikenali sebagai Faisal Tehrani.
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Faisal Tehrani adalah lulusan Ijazah Sarjana Muda Syariah-Politik dari Universiti Malaya (1998), Ijazah Sarjana Sastera dari Universiti Sains Malaysia (2000), Doktor Falsafah dari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (2010). Dr Faisal bertugas di Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Beliau adalah bekas penyelaras Kursus Intensif Keterampilan Bahasa Melayu (KIKBM) di ATMA, UKM sejak tahun 2013. Juga merupakan felo penyelidik bersekutu di Faculty of Regional Studies at the Al-Mustafa International Research Institute, Iran sejak Mac 2011. Beliau turut menjadi pe -
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Ahmet T. Kuru
Ahmet T. Kuru is the director of Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. His recent book, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019) co-won the American Political Science Association's International History and Politics Section Award, received honorable mention of SSSR’s Award, and was included in Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year. He is also the author of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which received Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR)’s Book Award. He is the co-editor (with Alfred Stepan
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Ibnu Rijal
Muhammad Nazri bin Rijal atau nama penanya Ibnu Rijal adalah lulusan dalam bidang Syariah dan Sejarah. Kini beliau melanjutkan pengajian di Universiti Islam Antarabangsa salam bidang Kaunseling Pendidikan. Meminati bidang penulisan dan mula aktif dalam arena cerpen serta puisi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi. Beliau juga terlibat secara aktif dalam aktiviti-aktiviti sosial seperti "Save Palestine" serta banyak program-program beliau yang lain. Beliau juga adalah bekas pendidik di Qiraati Nizarnul Hayat, Penang dan di Al-Bahir Tahfiz centre di Kedah.
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Amanda Lee Koe
Born and raised in Singapore, Amanda Lee Koe has lived in Beijing, Berlin and Bangkok and is now based in New York.
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She was the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for the short story collection Ministry of Moral Panic (Epigram, 2014), shortlisted for the Frankfurt Book Fair's LiBeraturpreis and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt's International Literature Prize.
Her debut novel, Delayed Rays of A Star (Doubleday, 2019), won the Henfield Prize, awarded to the best work of fiction by an MFA candidate at Columbia University's School of the Arts. It was a Straits Times #1 Bestseller, and an NPR Best Book of the Year.
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
أبو حامد الغزالي
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Muslim theologian and philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali of Persia worked to systematize Sufism, Islamic mysticism, and in The Incoherence of the Philosophers (1095) argued the incompatibility of thought of Plato and Aristotle with Islam.
Born in 1058, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī ranked of the most prominent and influential Sunni jurists of his origin.
Islamic tradition considers him to be a Mujaddid, a renewer of the faith who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every century to restore the faith of the ummah ("the Islamic Community"). His works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that al-Ghazali was awarded the honorific title "Proof of Islam" (Hujjat al-Islam).
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Natsume Sōseki
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Ayman Rashdan Wong
Seorang Pegawai Tadbir Dan Diplomatik, graduan dalam bidang Hubungan Antarabangsa Dan Pertahanan dari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia dan Universiti Malaya.
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Muhd. Kamil Ibrahim
As published in Value Relevance of Accounting Numbers (2005)
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Muhd Kamil Ibrahim was born on May 19, 1964 at Kampong Bintang, Besut, Terengganu. Universiti Teknologi MARA has conferred him a Professorship in Accounting at the age of 39. He completed his primary education in five years, instead of six; as best student. Subsequently, he was offered to go to three elite residential school; Sekolah Menengah Sains Terengganu, Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman Ipoh and Maktab Rendah Sains MARA (MRSM) Kota Bharu.
He chose the latest because he was amazed with the uniqueness of its Minangkabau roof! Furthermore, MRSM does not practice school uniform; that made his life easier. In MRSM, he was elected as the committee member of Students’ Union (JPP) and host -
Malik B. Badri
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Taha Jabir Al-Alwani
Dr. Taha Jabir al Alwani was born in Iraq in 1354/1935. He received his primary and secondary education in his native land and then graduated with an Honors Degree from the College of Shariah and Law at Al Azhar University in Cairo in 1378/1959. From the same university he was awarded his Master's Degree in 1388/1968, and a Doctorate in Usul al Fiqh in 1392/1973. For ten years (from 1395/1975 to 1405/1985) Dr al 'Alwani was a Professor of Fiqh and Usul al Fiqh at Imam Muhammad b. Sa'ud University in Riyadh. Dr. al 'Alwani participated in the founding of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) in the USA in 1401/1981, and is now the Institute's President and a member of its Board of Trustees. He is a founder-member of the Counc
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Zaini Ujang
With an army father posted in different states around the country, Zaini learnt to be independent from a young age, living in a student hostel for the children of army personnel in Melaka, visiting his parents during school holidays.
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The country's youngest Vice Chancellor at 43 years old, Zaini joined UTM as a permanent academic staff in 1988.
Although he is now an acknowledged water expert, Zaini did not have any childhood ambitions to become a scientist. He credits his chemistry and biology teachers at school for awakening his interest in science.
Zaini Ujang is an academic administrator, environmental engineers and scientist who attempts to blend knowledge, skills, experience and innovation in a harmonious manner. As Secretary-General of th -
Muhammad Haji Salleh
Sasterawan Negara yang ke-6, 1991. Penerima S.E.A. Write Awards 1997. Tokoh Anugerah Akademik Negara 2008.
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Prof. Dr. Muhammad Haji Salleh dilahirkan pada 26 Mac 1942. Beliau mendapat pendidikan awal di High School Bukit Mertajam ,Bukit Mertajam, Maktab Melayu Kuala Kangsar dan Malayan Teachers College Brinsford Lodge, England. Setelah itu, beliau menuntut di Universiti Malaya, Singapura dan mendapat Ijazah Sarjana Sastera. Beliau kemudiannya melanjutkan pengajian ke Universiti Michigan, Amerika Syarikat di mana beliau mendapat Ph. D.
Kerjayanya bermula sebagai seorang guru di Trade School Butterworth pada tahun 1960 dan kemudiannya meneruskan perkhidmatan perguruannya di beberapa buah sekolah hinggalah menjadi tutor, pensyarah, pensyarah kana -
Asghar Ali Engineer
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Engineer also served as head of the Institute of Islamic Studies and the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, both of which he founded in 1980 and 1993 respectively. He also made contributions to The God Contention, a website comparing and contrasting various worldviews. Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer’s autobiography A Living Faith: My Quest -
Zurinah Hassan
Datuk Dr. Zurinah Hassan is National Literary Laureate of Malaysia. She is the 13th writer and the first female writer to be conferred the tittle of Sasterawan Negara at a ceremony held on 26th of April 2016. The award is the highest award given to a writer in Malaysia.
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Prior to this Zurinah Hassan had received Southeast Asian Writers Award (SEA Write Award in 2004 and Sunthorn Phu Poets Award, 2013.