Arguably, we live in a moment obsessed with history. Issues of the day are pregnant with the past. Why history matters? Or does it even matter at all? We are often reminded that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Global and national leaders, including Malaysian prime ministers, have often used the phrase. That

WE may learn lessons in managing Islamophobia from British novelist and essayist George Orwell of Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) fame. In 1945, he wrote a number of essays, including Anti-Semitism in Britain, recently published in Notes on Nationalism. He introduces his essay by providing background of the Jewish population in B

TO the West, Ibn Khaldun had a Western view of history. There was a "perfume of the Renaissance" about him. A number of French scholars revealed Ibn Khaldun as "a modern Frenchman" and one who have would have approved of the French empire in North Africa. He may be regarded as a fellow traveller, albeit separated by some 600 years.

يتناول هذا البحث جانباً مهماً من: (معايير تحليل النص الشعري عند الإمام عبد القاهر الجرجاني)، والتي تركز على نقد وتحليل النص الشعري، وكيفية تذوقه، حيث كانت نظريات علم النقد في ذلك الوقت مرتبطة ا

This article reviews the “acquisition” of Pulau Pinang by Francis Light and the East India Company (EIC) in the year 1786. The discussion centres on the contested history of Pulau Pinang and the collective memory of the Malays. It reveals discussions between Francis Light and the sultans of Kedah on the supposed “acquisition” and sometime l

Artikel ini memberikan tafsiran semula dan penekanan terhadap kewartawanan dan akhbar, secara amnya melalui tulisan W.R. Roff. Tiga daripada karya beliau yang signifikan dalam kajian ini ialah Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia (2009: NUS Press Singapore), Bibliografi terbitan berkala Melayu dan Arab yang diterbitkan di Negeri-Negeri Se

This article defines Malay identity through their portrayal of the Malay Other – the Arabs, Indian Muslims and the Europeans. The Arabs and Peranakan Arabs were identified as foreigners in disguise, the Europeans colonisers as harbingers of modernity. From this perspective not much has been written, using editorial cartoons in Malaysia. This arti

Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas’ writings have developed a framework and theoretical perspective in responding to the Western worldview and scholarship. This is another layer in the trajectory of his works which has mainly gone unnoticed from the beginning. His systematic corpus on the Anglo-Saxon West encompasses, among others, the philosophical a

The National Postgraduate Medical Curriculum (NPMC) for General Surgery is the culmination of a collaboration between the General Surgery Conjoint Board, the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) and the Ministry of Health Malaysia, (MOH). It provides a structured and unified curriculum for the training of General Surgery specialists throughout the c

Rantau and merantau has been embedded this region since time immemorial. It manifests the spirit of the homeland long before the arrival of the Europeans, and other Asian communities. In the consciousness of the Malays in Malaysia, the practice has long been associated with the Minangkabaus. It is not peculiar to the Minangkabaus. Merantau is also