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
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Politics
The struggle for Islam's soul
- 18 July 2005
- 3 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
Books
Lost in translation. Most English-language editions of the Qur'an have contained numerous errors, omissions and distortions. Hardly surprising, writes Ziauddin Sardar, when one of their purposes was to denigrate not just the Holy Book, but the entire Islamic faith
- 09 August 2004
- 13 comments
The Qur'an
Translated by M A S Abdel Haleem Oxford University Press, 464pp, £14.99
ISBN 0192805487
Ideas
NS Essay - Is Muslim civilisation set on a fixed course to decline?
- 14 June 2004
Wahhabism, the Saudis' brand of Islam, negates the very idea of evolution in human thought and morality. Ziauddin Sardar recalls his own experiences of a faith that shuns unbelievers
World Affairs
How to take Islam back to reason
- 05 April 2004
- 3 comments
Far from being anti-science, as George Carey suggests, the Koran demands scientific study. Now Muslim leaders are planning its revival and hope to restore a golden age, reports Ziauddin Sardar
