Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar, writer and broadcaster, describes himself as a ‘critical polymath’. He is the author of over 40 books, including the highly acclaimed ‘Desperately Seeking Paradise’. He is Visiting Professor, School of Arts, the City University, London and editor of ‘Futures’, the monthly journal of planning, policy and futures studies.
Articles by Ziauddin Sardar
Results 91 to 100 of 192
Politics
Islam: the tide of change
- 08 August 2005
The Muslim world is not the medieval monolith we in the west often imagine. Ziauddin Sardar toured some of its most populous and important countries, meeting senior leaders and thinkers, and he returned hopeful
Books
The metropolis with seven billion people . Multiculturalism is dead, according to its critics. But the logic of globalisation means an increasing number of people from different cultures living together in future. Ziauddin Sardar wonders if we can ever all get on
- 01 August 2005
Multicultural Politics: racism, ethnicity and Muslims in Britain Tariq Modood Edinburgh University Press, 272pp, £45 (hbk)/£16.99 (pbk) ISBN 0748621725 After the Cosmopolitan?: multicultural cities and the future of racism Michael Keith Routledge, 232pp, £65 (hbk)/£21.99 (pbk)
Society
Beyond blame and shame: what we must do now
- 25 July 2005
Terror and the UK: Young Muslims have been totally marginalised by their "community leaders". Nothing will change until they are given representation, argues Ziauddin Sardar
Politics
The struggle for Islam's soul
- 18 July 2005
- 4 comments
Terror in the UK - Most Muslims abhor violence, yet the terrorists are a product of a specific mindset that has deep roots in Islamic history. If Muslims refuse to confront this, we will all be prey to more terror
Books
The holiday snaps. Abu Ghraib wasn't the fault just of US politicians and soldiers. Torture, glamourised by Hollywood, is now intrinsic to American life. By Ziauddin Sardar
- 07 March 2005
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the war on terror Mark Danner Granta Books, 573pp, £16.99 ISBN 186207772X The Torture Papers: the road to Abu Ghraib Edited by Karen J Greenberg and Joshua L Dratel Cambridge University Press, 1,284pp, £27.50
Society
It's just mechanics
- 01 January 2005
2005: The decline of sex - Viagra is just the start: we'll soon have pills that make you feel deep love and video games that give vibrations. Ziauddin Sardar on the masturbatory society
Society
Festivals of austerity
- 13 December 2004
NS Christmas - Muslims fast and Hindus walk. Only Christians gorge themselves
Books
Written out of history. Many of civilisation's crowning glories originated in the east. Yet you'd be unlikely to learn this from reading western historians. Ziauddin Sardar on the books we ignore
- 08 November 2004
Great Ideas series Various authors Penguin, £3.99 each Human Accomplishment: the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences (800BC-1950) Charles Murray HarperCollins US, 688pp, £17.99 The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation John M Hobson Cambridge University Press, 376pp, £17.99 (paperback)
Books
Why do they hate us? The rise of anti-westernism concerns us all - yet most attempts to understand it display exactly the sort of chauvinism that explains why people despise the west. The real challenge is to try to understand other cultures on their own terms
- 04 October 2004
Occidentalism: a short history of anti-westernism Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit Atlantic Books, 165pp, £14.99 ISBN 1843542870
World Affairs
Can Islam change?
- 13 September 2004
- 3 comments
Beslan and 9/11 are leading millions of Muslims to search their souls. Even clerics now question the harshest traditional laws and look for a more humane interpretation of their faith
