Initially prepared as a document in the Malay Language by Professor Dr. Tatiana Denisova, IKIM Honorary Fellow and Professor at RZS-CASIS, UTM KL, and incorporating almost all of an earlier published essay by Datuk Dr. Syed Ali Tawfik al-Attas, the Third Director-General of IKIM, the content of the write-up as herein presented in the form of a special publication was first abbreviated and rendered into English by Muhammad Syafiq bin Borhannuddin, Senior Research Officer at IKIM, and subsequently edited by Dr. Mohd Zaidi bin Ismail, IKIM Deputy Director-General, as well as Tun Ahmad Sarji bin Abdul Hamid, the founding and now the Third Chairman of IKIM.