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 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
Politics
Where is the hand of my God in this horror?
- 17 September 2001
Terror in America - An ordinary Muslim, Ziauddin Sardar cannot recognise his religion in either the fanatics' deeds or in the media descriptions of "these people"
