Historical Fact and Fiction - UTM

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Attas, a globally renowned scholar, who has demonstrated
remarkable achievements in many different fields of Islamic
thought, history and civilisation.
This book, Historical Fact and Fiction by Tan Sri Prof. Al-
Attas, bears the maiden imprint of CASIS, the UTM Centre
for Advanced Studies of Islam, Science and Civilization, a
centre of excellence that would put UTM at the global front,
as an institution that offers outstanding work in humanities
studies and research programme, while maintaining its
status as a highly advanced technology-based University.
World-class universities and higher learning institutions such
as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and University of Chicago, to name just a few,
are institutions that are renowned for their science,
engineering, and technology-based studies, with many Nobel
Laureates in their academic faculty. University of Chicago, at
one point has more than fifty Nobel laureates on campus,
from Chemistry, to Physics, Astronomy and it has a world-
class business school.