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Al-Attas (other) , Yemeni journalist and author
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Attas or al-Attas or Alatas may refer to: * Ali Alatas, former Foreign Minister of Indonesia * Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Prime Minister of Yemen * Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Muslim scholar * Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian academician, sociologist and politician and the older brother of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas * Syed Farid al-Attas, Malaysian sociologist and the son of Syed Hussein Alatas * Hamida al-Attas, mother of Osama bin Laden * Jai Al-Attas, co-founder and co-owner of Australian independent label Below Par Records * Huda al-Attas Huda al-Attas () is a Yemeni journalist and author. Biography She was born in 1971 in Dawʿan in the Hadhramaut. She is best known for her short stories, for which she has won a number of awards, including the Al-Afif prize in 1997. Her first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Alatas
Ali Alatas ( ar, علي العطاس '; 4 November 193211 December 2008) was an Indonesian diplomat of Ba 'Alawi sada descent, who served as the country's foreign minister from 1988 to 1999. He was Indonesia's longest serving foreign minister. Education and early career Alatas graduated from the Indonesian Foreign Service Academy in 1954 and earned a law degree from the University of Indonesia in 1956. Alatas joined the Indonesian foreign service in 1954 as a 22-year-old. His early career included stints in the Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand and Embassy in Washington, DC. He was named Indonesia's ambassador to the UN, in Geneva from 1975 to 1978 and was also ambassador to the UN in New York from 1982 to 1988. As foreign minister and after He was Indonesia's Minister for Foreign Affairs from March 1988, serving three terms under the former Suharto administration and once under the Habibie administration in May 1998,. He advocated regional cooperation and played a cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haidar Abu Bakr Al-Attas
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas ( ar, حيدر أبو بكر العطاس; born April 5, 1939) was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to form present-day Yemen. Al-Attas served until 1994. He is a member of the Yemeni Socialist Party. Before unification, al-Attas served as Prime Minister (1985–1986) and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council (1986–1990) in the southern PDRY. When Aden in southern Yemen seceded in May 1994, al-Attas served as the Prime Minister of the secessionist Democratic Republic of Yemen The Democratic Republic of Yemen ( '), colloquially known as South Yemen, was a breakaway state that fought against Yemen Arab Republic in the 1994 Yemeni Civil War. It was declared in May 1994 and covered all of the former South Yemen. Th ... until the rebellion ended less than two months later. References 1939 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
Syed Muhammad al Naquib bin Ali al-Attas ( ar, سيد محمد نقيب العطاس '; born 5 September 1931) is a Malaysian Muslim philosopher. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the traditional Islamic sciences and studies theology, philosophy, metaphysics, history, and literature. He pioneered the concept of Islamisation of knowledge. Al-Attas' philosophy and methodology of education have one goal: Islamisation of the mind, body and soul and its effects on the personal and collective life on Muslims as well as others, including the spiritual and physical non-human environment. He is the author of 27 works on various aspects of Islamic thought and civilisation, particularly on Sufism, cosmology, metaphysics, philosophy and Malay language and literature. Early life and education Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas was born in Bogor, Java, Dutch East Indies into a family with a history of illustrious ancestors, saints. His genealogical tree can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Hussein Alatas
Syed Hussein Alatas ( ar, سيد حسین العطاس '; 17 September 1928 – 23 January 2007) was a Malaysian academic, sociologist, politician, and founder of social science organisations. He was 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 postcolonial, project, the most famous being ''The Myth of the Lazy Native''. Early life Syed was born in Buitenzorg (now Bogor), Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). His grandfather, Sayyid 'Abd Allah bin Muhsin al-Attas ( ar, سيد عبد الله بن محسن العطاس ), was a Hadhrami from Hadhramaut, Yemen and settled in Bogor. Notes and references Further reading Scores pay last respects to Syed Hussein* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alatas, Syed Hussein 1928 births 2007 deaths Deaths from pulmonary embolism Indonesian emig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Farid Al-Attas
Syed Farid Alatas ( ar, سيد فريد العطاس ) is a Malaysian author and educator, serving as a professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Books * ''Ibn Khaldun'' (Makers of Islamic Civilization), Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013 * ''Applying Ibn Khaldun: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology'' (Routledge), 2014 * ''An Islamic Perspective on the Commitment to Inter-Religious Dialogue'',Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies
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Hamida Al-Attas
Hamida al-Attas ( ar, حميدة العطاس, translit=Ḥamīda al-Aṭṭās; born A'liyya Ghanim; ar, عالية غانم, translit='Ā'liyya Ghānim; , is the mother of the deceased al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden. Biography Hamida al-Attas came from a Syrian family of citrus farmers, with two brothers and another sister, living in two small coastal villages, Omraneya and Babryon, outside the port of Latakia. She grew up in a family of Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam. At age 14, she married Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in Latakia in 1956 and moved to Saudi Arabia with her husband. She was the tenth wife of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. Her husband had many wives and he divorced most of them, as having only four wives at once was in accordance with Muslim law. It has been reported that she was a concubine rather than wife of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. She was more cosmopolitan than Mohammed's first three Saudi wives. Osama bin Laden was her only child with Mohammad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jai Al-Attas
Jai Al-Attas (born 1983) is the co-founder and co-owner of Australian independent label Below Par Records and the writer and director of the 2009 documentary film ''One Nine Nine Four''. Below Par Records Al-Attas co-founded Below Par Records (sometimes typeset BelowPARrecords) alongside Mark Catanzariti and Steven Chalker, in 2000. All three were only 16 and still in high school. The label concentrated on signing Australian indie bands, catering for rock artists and more specifically punk and its subgenres. In 2002, the label won the Nescafé Big Break award, which was a Nescafé initiative, where the company gives away cash grants to people aged between 16 and 24, who have a dream or idea and need some financial support to make it a reality. The label was granted A$20,000. Below Par became a part of Australian Independent Records Labels Association (AIR)—similar to the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), except independent-based—and then went on to sign Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |