Dr. Azly Rahman
Eurasia Review
United States
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The Straits Philosophical Society And Colonial Elites In Malaya – Book Review
Introduction The third quarter of the nineteenth century is exciting in its own way with stories of the interplay between the consequences of the Peace of Westphalia, the rise of nationalism, ethno… → Read More
Death, Salvation, Liberation: Learning From David Bowie’s Songs – Essay
Today I wish to write about rock music and the philosophy behind lyrics. For those who grew up with the genre of British and American classic rock of the Seventies, the name David Bowie would come … → Read More
Immersing Myself In A ‘P. Ramlee’ Vinyl LP And Thinking About ‘Secularism’ – Essay
2023 will be my year of more writing. Ten books so far. Already submitted my eleventh manuscript (essays on personalizing history) to Penguin Random House for publication consideration. I am finali… → Read More
Narrating Fifteen Hours Of Doing Nothing: A Momentary Lapse Of Existentialist Angst – Essay
Today I am doing nothing for fifteen hours, sitting down bolted in my seat with the droning of white noise and minus 58-degree weather outside. What would you do if your life is relegated to not wa… → Read More
Shame-Scam-Sham Of The Act Of Voting (Part I) – Essay
These words came to me today as I continue to skim through the news and views of what’s up in the never-ending game of those with money to throw and gifts of the gap to make promises they wil… → Read More
American Pastoral Wisdom: Of Frank Lloyd Wright And On Freedom – Essay
While writing this essay, an hour-long of traditional-spiritual Turkish/Ottoman music was playing in the background. Words cannot describe the beauty of the music and the truth in it. Seems to sync… → Read More
So, It’s ‘9/11’ Again In America? How Do We Teach It? – Essay
It’s been 21 years since the terrorist attack on American soil. Time to teach it. On Friday morning September 9, I sent out a message below to my educator-colleagues: Dear colleagues,As we kn… → Read More
Marco Polo-II Notes (Part II): A Da Vinci Welcome, A Concrete Jungle Awaits – Essay
I had just gotten off from a ten-day lecture-dialogue session with a university in Mexico, engaging with students from India, Mexico, Peru. Bolivia, Poland, and the US, on the topic of managing cul… → Read More
Odyssey II: A Journey In Three Tablets – Essay
Tablet I ‘Ujud satu Ujud Di lebur sifat Nafsiah …’ said the wise man Of how Death came early before one’s physical death in paving the way for this long jo… → Read More
July 4th, 2022: American Tandoori And Random Notes Like Fireworks So Fiery – Essay
America, as many call her, is a melting pot. Some say it is a salad bowl. I say it is oven-baked, a bit-spicy tandoori with all the microbial trappings of democracy blown to pieces yearly… → Read More
Black Lives Matter? Or Buy Large Mansions? Looking Back At A Malaysian BLM Response – OpEd
If we are to reflect upon the issue of the Black Lives — White Lives, Blue Lives or Whomever –Lives Matter, as it became an explosive one in an aftermath of the unfortunate George Floyd… → Read More
Our Ramadan, Our Ramallah, And The Butterfly Effects We Unleashed – Essay
“…O People, listen to me in earnest, worship Allah, say your five daily prayers (Salah), fast during the month of Ramadan, and give your wealth in Zakat. Perform Hajj if you can afford … → Read More
Using 3-C Lenses To Look At Complex Social Phenomena: The Case Of Malaysia – Essay
In my previous essays, I suggested ways to view society, drawing attention to the impermanence of truth as the construction of philosophical knowledge. I presented an example such as the similarity… → Read More
The Day I Killed Those Two Ancient Malay Heroes, Hang Tuah And Hang Jebat – Essay
When I was 10 or 11, I wanted to be either Hang Tuah or Hang Jebat. Or Bruce Lee. For those not familiar with the names, I will skip explaining who Bruce Lee was. One may check his Faceb… → Read More
On The ‘Metaverse’: Letters To Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, META – OpEd
Staring deep into that childhood photo I see memories on the wall in each of the different rooms in that palace in each room songs of yesteryear some joyous some poignant some merely words without … → Read More
Metaverse? And A Zuckerbergian Elegy? – OpEd
I wrote the word “METAVERSE” on my whiteboard today for my academic contemplation for the next few days and my lecture notes for my course Sociology of the Future. I then created a conc… → Read More
Woodstock 1969 And A Gangsta Memoir’s Pilgrimage -Essay
When I was writing my memoir, Grandma’s Gangsta Chicken Curry and Stories of my Hippie Sixties (published by Penguin Random House in May 2021,) I had three places in mind for me to use as loc… → Read More
Colonial Education: A Comparative Analysis Of French And American Systems
In this brief essay which discusses the descriptive, analytical, contrastive, and evaluative aspects of colonial education as a special case of educational transfer, I have chosen French and Americ… → Read More
The Movement To ‘De-Westernize And De-Colonize Knowledge’ In Universities – OpEd
A brief Facebook exchange with a proponent and activist of a new theoretical fad to “totally re-Islamize” knowledge. I had a very interesting and engaging Facebook conversation with an … → Read More
Merdeka – Independence Day Reflections: Rewriting Malaysian History – OpEd –
A nation, if not monocultural, draws its strength in diversity. Simple human logic taught in Peace Studies. The case of Malaysia is interesting. She can move forward as a nation, getting out of the cage of cultural incompetency that has destroyed her sanity. As it is now, she is trapped in a box build by Harry Houdini. That box is constructed out of the ideology of race and religious extremism… → Read More