Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri
Part 1
Alatas’ Work and Legacy
1 Developing a School of Autonomous Knowledge Thoughts of the Late Syed Hussein Alatas
Syed Imad Alatas
2 The Midlife of an Idea Syed Hussein Alatas’ Captive Mind after Fifty Years
Masturah Alatas
Part 2
Theorizing the Captive Mind
3 Alatas on Colonial and Autonomous Knowledge
Syed Farid Alatas
4 The Psychological Dynamics of Mental Captivity Subsequent Conceptual Developments
Dustin J. Byrd
5 The Cartography of Reception of ‘The Captive Mind’ in Iran
Esmaeil Zeiny
6 “The Captive Mind” and Social Sciences in Southeast Asia Syed Hussein Alatas
Mona Abaza
7 The Captive Mind Syndrome in Indian Sociology
N. Jayaram
8 Psychological Feudalism Malay Political Culture and Responses towards Modernization
Norshahril Saat
9 “Irrational” Beliefs in a “Rational” World Religion and Modernization
Hira Amin
Part 3
Mythologizing and Demythologizing the Native
10 Demythologizing Dominant Discourses Syed Hussein Alatas’ The Myth of the Lazy Native and the Discourse on Malay Cultural Values and Underdevelopment
Zawawi Ibrahim
11 Syed Hussein Alatas Colonialism and Modernity
Joseph Alagha and Mostafa Soueid
12 The Invention of “Islam” How (Lazy) Historians and Social Scientists Created a Fantasy
Carimo Mohomed
Part 4
Alatas and the Socio-political
13 Syed Hussein Alatas and the Question of Intellectuals
Seyed Javad Miri
14 West-Centric Geopolitical Discourse Situating Syed Hussein Alatas in International Relations
Sharifah Munirah Alatas
15 Alatas Pioneer in the Study of, and the Struggle against, Corruption
Chandra Muzaffar
16 Syed Hussein Alatas and the Question of Political Thought
Teo Lee Ken
17 Contributions of Syed Hussein Alatas towards Global Sociology
Habibul Haque Khondker
18 East-West Interactions and Complexities Syed Hussein Alatas, Willem Wertheim and Edward Said
Victor T. King
19 Hidden Connections Syed Hussein Alatas and Latin American Sociology
João Marcelo E. Maia
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