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Che Husna Azhari (born 8 November 1955) in Kota Bharu, Melor, Kelantan, is a Malaysian writer of literature.
Che Husna received a degree from Tunku Kurshiah College, Seremban in 1973, and her A Levels from Oxford College of Further Education in 1975.
In 1979, she received a degree from Brunel University of West London in Polymer technology. In 1985, Che Husna was awarded a PhD in Response Engineering from Brunel University of West London.
Che Husna is a professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, specialising in non-metallic materials processing. She also serves as the Director of the Center for Corporate Planning and Communications at that university.
Che Husna’s writings are generally set in Kelantan, Malaysia, and her best known short stories are used as standard teaching texts in Malaysia.
Her first English anthology, An Anthology of Kelantan Tales was published in 1992. Her latest work, An English Sojourn is set in the United Kingdom.
The Malay language has a complex system of styles, titles and honorifics which are used extensively in Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Singapore.
Universiti Sains Malaysia is a public research university in Malaysia. Founded on 1 June 1969 as a statutory body with its own constitution, it is among the oldest institutes of higher learning in Northern Malaysia. It has three campuses: a main campus on the island of Penang, a health campus in Kelantan, and an engineering campus in Nibong Tebal.
The Grand Mufti is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state. The office originated in the early modern era in the Ottoman Empire and has been later adopted in a number of modern countries.
Malaysian Sign Language is the principal language of the deaf community of Malaysia. It is also the official sign language used by the Malaysian government to communicate with the deaf community and was officially recognised by the Malaysian government in 2008 as a means to officially communicate with and among the deaf, particularly on official broadcasts and announcements. BIM has many dialects, differing from state to state.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, [who] changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions". Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
Pasir Puteh District is a district (jajahan) in Kelantan, Malaysia. The town of Pasir Putih is situated on the bank of Semerak River, about 30 kilometers to the south of Kota Bharu. Pasir Puteh district borders Besut District, Terengganu to its south-east.
Senu bin Abdul Rahman was a Malaysian politician and former federal minister and diplomat.
Che Puan Sarimah binti Ibrahim is a Malaysian television host, radio announcer, actress and singer.
Budak Kelantan is a 2008 Malaysian drama film that captures the cultural relativism of Malaysians on Kelantanese migrant since urbanization of Kuala Lumpur. The main theme is a dramatization of a group of Kelantanese adults in their early 20s whom relocated to Kuala Lumpur, sets in 1990s, between the life of 2 long-lost friends from rural areas of Kelantan whom now are living in Kuala Lumpur and currently stand in difference social status. Some of the movie scenes were filmed strategically in one of many popular hangouts spot in Kuala Lumpur for both local and foreigners in 1990s, which are Central Market, Kotaraya Complex, Pertama ComplexArchived 8 June 2023 at the Wayback Machine and defunct Klang Bus Stands which are now less favored beginning the year of 2000 after a successful crowd-puller establishment of many newly opened shopping malls and tourist destination which mainly concentrated in other part of Kuala Lumpur including Bukit Bintang, Bangsar and Jalan Ampang. As Kelantan is the only longest ruling Muslim conservative state in Malaysia by Malaysian Islamic political party PAS, the film direction is considered 'brave' as it is so far the only local film that touches most notable taboo subjects regarding runaway teenage girls, gang-rape, procuring, substance abuse and religious infidelity, stereotypically portrayed as committed by Kelantanese adults. Despite the provoked film background from local Malaysian perspective, it offers a variety of morally complex, gripping and unsettling, flawless domestic portrait that its director aims to leave the questions and dilemmas for viewers with open-ended, according to his interview.
Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke Kelantan was a Malay literary work of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir. It was first published in 1838 in Singapore, and considered as the first Malay literary text being published commercially.
Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Kok Lanas is a coeducational day school located in Kampung Kok Lanas, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Mohammad A. Quayum is an academic, writer, editor, critic and translator.
Fatimah Busu is a Malaysian novelist, short-story writer, and academic. She is one of the leading contemporary authors of fiction in the Malay language, actively publishing since the 1970s. She is also the foremost Malay-language literary critic.
Khalidah Adibah binti Amin, known professionally as Adibah Amin, is a Malaysian writer, columnist, teacher, translator and actress.
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Haji Yusuf Liu Baojun is a Chinese Muslim historian and researcher, best known as the author of Exodus Through Tian Shan – The Tale of Chinese Muslims in Central Asia, a book that has gained wide attention in Mainland China. He has published more than 15 books since 1991 written in three languages: English, Mandarin and Malay.
The following is the family tree of the Malay monarchs of Kelantan. While foreign sources include oblique references to the successive rulers who governed the city states of ancient Kelantan, a clear genealogy only emerges with Mansur Shah who reigned from 1465 to 1526. His father, Iskandar Shah is said to have been descendant of the ruler of the similarly obscure Kota Gelanggi.
Raja Perempuan Tengku Anis binti Almarhum Tengku Abdul Hamid is the former Raja Perempuan of Kelantan. She is the widow of Sultan Ismail Petra and the mother of Sultan Muhammad V. As a queen dowager, she is now styled as Yang Maha Mulia Raja Perempuan Tengku Anis.
Che Puan Sofie Louise Johansson Petra is the wife of Tengku Muhammad Fa-iz Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail Petra, the former Tengku Mahkota of Kelantan.
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