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Salman Sayyid, known for his famous works on A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentricism and emergence of islamism. Pioneer to Critical Muslim studies

It is rather unfortunate that many marxian studies students have ignored grundrisse and focus solely on Capital. This is definitely interesting start for Grundrisse

Rereading this book again, using the latest 2016 edition. Last time i have read this was few years ago. Picking up again since now i am revisiting revising many of my thoughts on Marx.

Done with a chapter on Ricardo-Marx's debacles. For so long i have been holding on to a substantialist understanding of Value( thanks to my lecture Terry Peach) , which give rise to a striking marxian dilemma: the transformation of value into price.

The first book to kick off in 2017. A bit late than most due to exams. Anyhow, let's hope for more good readings this year.

Rereading this again, and again. I should start moving to volume two after i am done with this one.

So far the book has been very well written. No interesting findings just yet.

I must confess, it has been quite awhile since i read anything on Islamic history

Started another book, while there are two others that have yet to finish. I am easily distracted from reading, by other readings.

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Apart from that, his new readings of Nagarakartagama and comparisons with other chinese records are one of many evidences of his genius. He proposed that the prince appointed as the King by Majapahit is not adiyavarman but parameswara himself, and the arrival of parameswara to Singapore in 1378 instead of 1390 as proposed by Winstedt is very convincing.

The accounts of Parameswara's conversion to islam by Syed Naquib seems a bit too speculative for me. To dismiss and reverse nearly twenty years from the date recorded by Tom Pires as inspired by hearsay must be founded on a stronger justification. And suggestion of parameswara's name as Muhammad also a mere conjecture, of which he did emphasized that this fact can never be known for certain.