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elementor-element-440eabd ob-harakiri-inherit ob-has-background-overlay elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"440eabd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ob_use_harakiri&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_harakiri_writing_mode&quot;:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;_ob_harakiri_text_clip&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;_ob_widget_stalker_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_poopart_use&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_shadough_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_allow_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">PROF. DATO' DR. AHMAD MURAD BIN MOHD NOOR MERICAN<br>\n<span style=\"font-size: 60%\">Professor of Social and Intellectual History<\/span><BR><span style=\"font-size: 60%\">Director of the Centre for Malay-Islamic \nCivilisational Studies (CMICS-ISTAC)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1db2050 ob-harakiri-inherit ob-has-background-overlay elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1db2050\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ob_use_harakiri&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_harakiri_writing_mode&quot;:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;_ob_postman_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_widget_stalker_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_poopart_use&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_shadough_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_allow_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-(--header-height)\" dir=\"auto\" data-turn-id=\"a9b12f8a-2ec3-4532-94bc-155148fbf651\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-7\" data-scroll-anchor=\"false\" data-turn=\"user\"><\/section><section class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto [content-visibility:auto] supports-[content-visibility:auto]:[contain-intrinsic-size:auto_100lvh] R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" data-turn-id=\"request-WEB:da50d6f5-f0a4-43a3-a6ff-5b606786f500-5\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-8\" data-scroll-anchor=\"false\" data-turn=\"assistant\"><div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"><div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"><div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"><div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"0\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"01b1b60a-a582-45b7-b5ab-69ede020b22d\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-3\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\"><div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"><div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word dark markdown-new-styling\"><p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"416\">Prof. Dato\u2019 Dr. Ahmad Murad bin Mohd Noor Merican is a scholar of social and intellectual history whose work moves between memory and meaning, tracing the contours of the Malay-Islamic world with both critical clarity and civilisational depth. At ISTAC-IIUM, his scholarship reflects a lifelong engagement with journalism, epistemology, and the history of ideas, where the written word becomes both archive and argument.<\/p><p data-start=\"418\" data-end=\"902\">Educated in political science and mass communication in the United States, and later in the history and philosophy of science in Malaysia, his intellectual formation bridges disciplines and geographies. Across more than two dozen books\u2014including <em data-start=\"664\" data-end=\"679\">Media History<\/em>, <em data-start=\"681\" data-end=\"692\">Tanah Air<\/em>, and <em data-start=\"698\" data-end=\"728\">Countering the Western Canon<\/em>\u2014he interrogates the dominance of inherited narratives while seeking alternative ways of knowing rooted in the Malay-Islamic experience .<\/p><p data-start=\"904\" data-end=\"1212\">His writing extends beyond the academy into the public sphere, where essays, columns, and reflections become acts of intellectual intervention. Whether examining colonial memory, media ethics, or the idea of <em data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1123\">Tanah Air<\/em>, his work insists that knowledge is never neutral\u2014it is lived, contested, and reclaimed.<\/p><p data-start=\"1214\" data-end=\"1389\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In his scholarship, history is not merely remembered; it is reimagined as a field of consciousness, where past and present converge in the search for a more meaningful future.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-207bf88 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"207bf88\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ob_use_container_extras&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_column_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_glider_is_slider&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_column_has_pseudo&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb37922 e-n-tabs-mobile ob-has-background-overlay elementor-widget elementor-widget-n-tabs\" data-id=\"fb37922\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tabs_justify_horizontal&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;horizontal_scroll&quot;:&quot;disable&quot;,&quot;_ob_widget_stalker_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_poopart_use&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_shadough_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_allow_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"nested-tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-n-tabs\" data-widget-number=\"263420194\" aria-label=\"Tabs. 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Doctor of Philosophy, Universiti Malaya (UM)<\/small><\/li><li><small>MA (Mass Communication) &#8211; Masters Degree, Minnesota<\/small><\/li><li><small>BA (Political Science) &#8211; Bachelor Degree, Minnesota<\/small><\/li><li><small>Dip in Mass Communication (Journalism) &#8211; Diploma, Institut Teknologi Mara<\/small><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-2634201942\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-2634201942\" data-tab-index=\"2\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 2;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-9204354 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9204354\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ob_use_container_extras&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_column_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_glider_is_slider&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_column_has_pseudo&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a55c67 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5a55c67\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ob_use_container_extras&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_column_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_glider_is_slider&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_column_has_pseudo&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2390237 ob-has-background-overlay elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"2390237\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ob_widget_stalker_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_poopart_use&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_shadough_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_allow_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Libre+Baskerville:wght@700&family=Montserrat:wght@400;500;600&display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n\n<style>\n.istac-pub-wrapper {\n  max-width: 1100px;\n  margin: 60px auto;\n  font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;\n}\n\n.istac-pub-card {\n  background: #F7F3E8;\n  padding: 30px 35px;\n  border-radius: 8px;\n  border: 1px solid #E6E0D4;\n  box-shadow: 0 8px 22px rgba(0,0,0,0.04);\n}\n\n.istac-pub-title {\n  font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', serif;\n  font-size: 18px;\n  color: #8B0000;\n  text-align: center;\n  margin-bottom: 25px;\n}\n\n.istac-pub-item {\n  padding: 12px 0;\n  border-bottom: 1px solid #D6D0C4;\n  font-size: 15px;\n  font-weight: 500;\n  color: #2A2A2A;\n  line-height: 1.6;\n}\n\n.istac-pub-item:last-child {\n  border-bottom: none;\n}\n\n.istac-year {\n  color: #8B0000;\n  font-weight: 600;\n  margin-right: 6px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"istac-pub-wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"istac-pub-card\">\n\n    <div class=\"istac-pub-title\">Article Publications<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"istac-pub-item\"><span class=\"istac-year\">2026<\/span> The transmission of Japanese ideas and the formation of Mahathir Mohamad\u2019s leadership thought. JARSBS, 43(1), pp. 37\u201343.<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"istac-pub-item\"><span class=\"istac-year\">2025<\/span> Asean media for civilisational consciousness. New Straits Times.<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"istac-pub-item\"><span class=\"istac-year\">2025<\/span> Dialog sebagai lautan global: Majid Tehranian, Laluan Sutera dan komunikasi. Dewan Masyarakat, pp. 58\u201359.<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"istac-pub-item\"><span class=\"istac-year\">2025<\/span> Ethics in the digital age: exploring ethical challenges of technology. JISDT, 7(1), pp. 29\u201350.<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"istac-pub-item\"><span class=\"istac-year\">2025<\/span> Iran: Statecraft, loneliness and geography. Bebasnews.<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"istac-pub-item\"><span class=\"istac-year\">2025<\/span> Jenamakan media Melayu jika mahukan bahasa Melayu diperkasa. 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