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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Books
The forgotten inheritance. Why the mutual hatred between Islam and the west? Is it because neither can acknowledge that Islam gave Europe what it values most: liberal humanism? By Ziauddin Sardar
- 07 April 2003
The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation Richard Fletcher Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 183pp, £14.99 ISBN 0713996862 Infidels: the conflict between Christendom and Islam (638-2002) Andrew Wheatcroft Viking, 443pp, £20
Books
The agony of a 21st-century Muslim. "Islam is a religion that devours all that is most humane and open-minded." How has this happened? Ziauddin Sardar on the delusion and intolerance of his fellow believers
- 17 February 2003
Islam Explained Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated by Franklin Philip The New Press, 120pp, £9.95 ISBN 1565847814 The Prophet Muhammad: a biography Barnaby Rogerson Little, Brown, 240pp, £14.99 "Believing Women" in Islam: unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Koran Asma Barlas University of Texas Press, 272pp, £16.95 pbk
Television
A voice of reason. Ziauddin Sardar deconstructs perhaps the "most valuable institution in the Arab world"
- 09 September 2002
Al-Jazeera: how the free Arab news network scooped the world and changed the Middle East Mohammed El-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar Farag Westview Press, 240pp, $24
North America
The great Satan
- 26 August 2002
The Eagle's Shadow: why America fascinates and infuriates the world Mark Hertsgaard Bloomsbury, 219pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747560536
Society
The New Statesman Essay - Nothing left to belong to
- 25 February 2002
"Know thyself," said Socrates. In today's world, how can we?
Politics
Could the war games come true?
- 07 January 2002
US think-tanks have been simulating a new India-Pakistan conflict for years. In almost nine out of ten cases, the outcome is nuclear
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Hype at the end of the tunnel
- 19 November 2001
Hollywood uses it; so did the Nazis. Ziauddin Sardar on the world's most potent drug
Politics
Sultans of spin - or of truth?
- 22 October 2001
Al-Jazeera television has led the way in exposing Arab power abuses
Politics
A choice between Satan and madmen
- 24 September 2001
Terror in America: Pakistan - Ziauddin Sardar on the awful dilemmas of a country in such trouble that it is basically run by the international banks
