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As Salam. i was so honoured this week and grab the rare opportunity with Professor Datuk Dr Osman Bakar. On May,3-5th 2015@ UTM, Univ Brunei Darussalam during his visit to Islamic Civilitation Faculty,UTM. Alhamdulillah, on 4th May, in scholars discussion with all PhD/Master student (@Marbawy Hall,Cfirst Building- actually i'm only the student from Education faculty) & so excited to presenting my short brief about my research areas to him. i was still remembered the respond from him:"please criticised the western theory of personality AND please remind the "akhlak" words because it's suitable rather than personality itself"- Thank You Prof, Thank You for the remind! For bro Nazif and bro Marwan (UBD-PhD student), bro Ahmad Syukran (FTI-UTM PhD) = thank you brothers for given the opportunity to me.....
Professor Datuk Dr Osman Bakar was appointed Chair Professor at SOASCIS, UBD on 5th September, 2012 and its first full-time Director on 1st January, 2013. A former mathematician, he earned a doctorate in Islamic philosophy from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. An Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, he was also its former Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) (1995-2000), Malaysia Chair of Southeast Asian Islam (2000-2005) at the Prince Talal al-Waleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Professor of Islamic Thought and Civilisation at ISTAC, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) (2005-2008), and Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO), International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, Malaysia (IAIS) (2008-2012).
A Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Department of History of Science, Harvard University (1992), Dr Bakar is an author of 18 books and more than 300 articles on various aspects of Islamic thought and civilization, particularly Islamic science and philosophy and Islam in Southeast Asia. Several of his writings have been translated into numerous languages, including Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese, Persian, Indonesian Malay, Urdu, and Bosnian. He was a member of the Council of 100 Leaders of the West-Islamic World Initiative for Dialogue founded by the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland. In 2009 he was included in the list of Malaysia’s twenty leading intellectuals and in 2010 and 2012 he was named among the 500 most influential Muslims in the world. In 1994, he was made a Dato’ by HH the Sultan of Pahang, and in 2000 a Datuk by DYMM the Malaysian King.
May Alloh SWT give him a lot of rahmah and rezki, aamiinYRA.
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