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The Malaysian Social Research
Institute (MSRI) is a
non governmental/profit organisation established in 1959. Among
its key objectives is to promote an understanding and
appreciation of Muslim and other communities in various parts of
the world in pursuance of humanitarian rights and to
conscientise the public and mobilize support for people
struggling for self determination and/or suffer from war or
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The early history |
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The early history
of the Malaysian Social Research Institute then known as
Malaysian Sociological Research Institute actually begins in
1953, when an American student studying Middle Eastern and
Islamic Studies at Columbia University took on Abba Eban, the
future Foreign Minister |
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of Israel in a
televised debate about the fate of the Palestinians and
the military aggression of Israel and its Zionist elite;
which led her to lose |
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the promised scholarship; which
–in turn- got her a scholarship
from the Egyptian government,
which –in turn- led to a whole
string of events that finally
led her to Malaya in 1957, and
to setting up MSRI in 1959. This
student is the late Dato’ Dr. Alijah (Shirle) Gordon, the founder and Chairman
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The purpose
The Malaysian Sociological Research Institute was inaugurated on 27 November
1959. The purpose of the institute was to produce and publish world-class
academic scholarship. The people involved with MSRI then - Pendita Za’aba, Dr.
Ishak Muhammad (Pak Sako) to name but a few - were at the forefront of
progressive Malaysian writing, and MSRI’s journal Intisari was one of the first
research journals dedicated to the idea of ‘leaving the walled-in and secure
yesterday to analyse today and the forces that mould our society’, published for
an educated general readership.
Many in Malaya then felt that Islam has had a pervasive influence, but little or
nothing has been published on the subject. Pendita Za'aba was the first Chairman
of this research group that literally survived on its member's own pocket money
and what little funds they managed to solicit from the public to support the
work.
Since its inception MSRI has moved forward to publish the result of its research
and commence further research. All the books published by MSRI, as parts of our
moral obligations, were donated to secondary schools all over Malaysia.
View
our Publications list..
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One of the publications under MSRI |
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MSRI/Sponsorship Programme of Palestinian Children was
born
In 1988, during the civil war in Lebanon, the then Chairman of MSRI, Dato' Dr.
Alijah Gordon was horrified by the thought that Palestinian refugees were forced
to ask a 'fatwa' to eat the flesh of their dead. She was galvanized into
organizing medical volunteers, medicines, food and clothing to these beleaguered
people. It was through these volunteers that the MSRI/SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMME OF
PALESTINIAN CHILDREN was born. There were too many children left homeless and
orphaned.
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This
Government-created Trust Fund was established in 1989
and MSRI
became one of its Trustees. The other Trustees are the
Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
the Welfare Department under the Ministry of National
Unity and Social Development.
MSRI’s continuing efforts of humanitarian support for the downtrodden,
especially for the Palestininian refugees in Lebanon. With the help of caring
Malaysians, MSRI’s programmes will continue to make a difference in the lives of
some of the most unfortunate people in the world.
MSRI’s continuing efforts of humanitarian support for the downtrodden,
especially for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. With the help of caring
Malaysians, MSRI’s programmes will continue to make a difference in the lives of
some of the most unfortunate people in the world.
See our sponsorship
programme
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