Syed Farid Alatas is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Visiting Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Malaya. Having lectured at the University of Malaya in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, he then headed the Department of Malay Studies at NUS from 2007 till 2013. Professor Alatas has published widely in the fields of the sociology of Islam, social theory, religion and reform, religious dialogue, and the study of Eurocentrism. His books include Ibn Khaldun (Oxford University Press, 2013), Applying Ibn Khaldun: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology (Routledge, 2014), Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon (Palgrave, 2017) (with Vineeta Sinha), and a forthcoming monograph on the decolonization of knowledge in the Malay World (Duke University Press).
