RH Dr.Zaki badawi has passed away on the 24th January 2006.Some news on his demise:guardian1; guardian2; islamiconline.com; times online
I met him in real life back in spring 2001 at the Muslim College in Ealing Common, west london. That was when i just started my PhD course. He claimed to have been in malaysia pre-independence era and befriended some of our great malaysian leaders and/or scholars including ungku aziz and anwar ibrahim. He appeared in quite a number of talk show programs in the UK, where most of them were shown on BBC.
His presence will be sorely missed. I do hope that his legacy will continue to live through his successors as well as those from the MAB, MCB, and so on, in dealing with the Islamic issue in Britain.
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