#TrivialTuesday

For the first post on #TrivialTuesday, I'll be posting on random materials related directly or indirectly to my culture or the culture of others. You get the picture, so let's get started.

For this week's post, I'd like to focus on the most prominent Malay-Muslim scholar, still alive and residing in Malaysia, Tan Sri Prof Dr. Syed Naquib al-Attas. He has explained and expanded the origins of Islam in the context of Malay culture and practices in one of his book. He is, overall, the epitome of a Malay-Muslim intellectual, putting together the mysticism of the Malay culture and Islam, and had proved both subject are in need of each other. As mentioned by Professor Syed Naquib al-Attas in this video, "Tress do not grow without roots". It reflects our culture. We are, bunch of huge trees, with roots. Find our roots, we'll know who we are.