Farish A. Noor

Farish A. Noor is a Malaysian academician, historian, and political scientist specializing in Southeast Asian studies and colonial history.

Persatuan Islam Se-Malaya

Born from the Womb of UMNO: How PAS Started as Persatuan Islam Se-Malaya

With the Hizbul Muslimin banned and its leaders behind bars, the Islamists of Malaya were without a party to call their own. From 1948 onwards…

Ibrahim Yaakob

Reconnecting the Malay World: Ibrahim Yaakob’s Re-suturing of Pahang and the Rest of the Malay Archipelago

Despite Hugh Clifford’s boast that he had managed to acquire for the Empire a vast territory of fifteen thousand square miles that was Pahang, it…