In the contemporary world, the majority of States have written constitutions except in a few countries such as the United Kingdom and Israel, among others. Even though a country may not have a constitution, there exist legal instruments or documents with the characteristics of a constitution prescribing imperative rules for the governance of that c

The paper seeks to examine the corpus of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273) in light of establishing new ways of constituting the Human and Social Sciences. It is based on the assumptions that the existing social and human sciences are anthropocentric in nature, and were produced within a culture and civilization that placed man as the centre and th

THE British Museum's website tells us that only one per cent of its holdings are on display. Simple arithmetic tells us 99 per cent are not on display. Greed? Arrogance? The lingering colonial nonchalance?

Mycobacteria fortuitum and chelonae are a group of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria (RGM) that can cause skin infections, most commonly in immunocompromised patients. RGM can also infect immunocompetent patients, but the disease is usually localized. Immunocompetent patients infected by RGM usually had a predisposing condition leading to the skin infec

The Malays have two sets of narratives in encounters with the West – one is actual, the other mythical/ metaphysical. Melaka was one of the earliest places of encounters, in both sense of the word, producing the Ferringhis and Rum (Rome). These are popular conceptions of the world, forging our consciousness as a nation. And so when the Ferringghi

The Ferringhi, Farang, and Franks have their origins at a particular moment in history, geography, and identity formation. It is an ethnography, of not only a Malay marker of the European, but by other societies that have come into contact with the natives of “the northern quadrant” where “the sun is far from the zenith – increasingly far t

Alfian Saat’s Merdeka is a timely reminder for history-starved Singapore. It is about Singapore’s breaking up with the West, on why Raffles must fall. I was among the Singaporeans in October of last year. Watching the play is like digesting large chunks of texts in two hours, alerting me to the ‘emptiness’ of the island’s past identity ha

The emergence of recent voices calling for decolonizing names and narratives in Malaysia cannot deny the history of colonialism in this part of the world. The story of the coming of Europeans to Melaka and the Malay Archipelago serves as integral to our history. The shores of Melaka, and that of other ports in the Malay Archipelago, emit a cacophon

Khairuddin Aljunied makes an unusual venture in retelling the story of Islam in Malaysia. The cosmopolitanism of Islam in Malaysia in its interactions with the world spells the leitmotif of his work. In so doing, Islam in Malaysia: An Entwined History reconsiders the problem and the accuracy of periodization in studying the history of the Islamic w

In this study, biochar was produced from sugarcane bagasse in a modified muffle furnace without using a purging gas at different temperatures; 400˚C to 700˚C with increments of 50˚C at 25˚C/min heating rate. Biochar yields were significantly influenced by the devolatization of biomass during the pyrolysis and were inversely proportional to the