Professor Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (born September 5, 1931) is a prominent contemporary Muslim philosopher and thinker from Malaysia. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the traditional Islamic sciences and who is equally competent in theology, philosophy, metaphysics, history, and literature. He is considered to be the pioneer in proposing the idea of Islamization of Knowledge. Al-Attas' philosophy and methodology of education have one goal: Islamization 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.
"Your work have influenced my personal and intellectual life, I have read your Islam and Secularism from cover to cover, three times, and would return to it many times more for specific references. To me, it is one of the finest works that a Muslim scholar has produced in the last century" - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
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