Syed Hussein Alatas | |
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| سيد حسين العطاس | |
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| 4th Vice-Chancellor of University of Malaya | |
| In office May 1988 – January 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Ungku Abdul Aziz |
| Succeeded by | Mohd Taib Osman |
| 1st President of the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia | |
| In office 1968–1971 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Lim Chong Eu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas 17 September 1928 Buitenzorg, West Java, Dutch East Indies (now Bogor, Indonesia) |
| Died | 23 January 2007 (aged 78) Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Resting place | Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Political party | Gerakan (1968–1973) PEKEMAS (1973–1978) Berjasa (1982–1983) Independent (1983–2007) |
| Spouse | Zaharah Abdullah |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas (Arabic: سيد حسین العطاس Sayyid Ḥusayn al-ʿAṭṭās; 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.