Kamal Hassan and the birth of IIUM: a retrospective survey of his ideas

• Main Authors: Ali, Mohd Mumtaz, Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Islamic University Malaysia 2023
• Subjects: BP1 Islam; BP190.5 Islamization of Knowledge; BP70 Biography; BP80 Other individual, A-Z; BPL Islamic education; BPL27 Aims and objectives of education. Sustainable education
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/109815/7/109815_Kamal%20Hassan%20and%20the%20birth%20of%20IIUM.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/109815/; https://journals.iium.edu.my/jiasia/index.php/jia/article/view/1190; https://doi.org/10.31436/jia.v20i3.1190

Documented evidence states that IIUM which came to exist in 1983, was the brainchild of Kamal Hassan (1942-2023). As one of the great minds of the Malay world, the task of conceptualizing an Islamic university unlike any other in the Muslim world, was personally an intellectual and educational c...