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Syed Farid Alatas

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Dr. Syed Farid Alatas is professor of sociology at the National University of Singapore, where he has been since 1992. His areas of interest are sociological theory, the philosophy of social science, the sociology of religion, and interreligious dialogue. Alatas previously taught at the University of Malaya in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies. A Malaysian national, he obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 1991.

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