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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Religion
The real lesson of Easter Island
- 28 February 2008
- 4 comments
Ancient cultures provide societies responsible for devastating climate change with a contemporary means of guilt replacement
Religion
The archbishop, sharia and gay rights
- 14 February 2008
- 14 comments
On the issue of equality it is not just the sharia that needs reform, but all monotheistic faiths
Asia
Will you marry me - temporarily?
- 07 February 2008
- 24 comments
This year, the Iranian interior ministry has launched a huge campaign to encourage the country's frustrated youth to seek sexual fulfilment in muta marriages
Life & Society
The right way to "do God"
- 31 January 2008
- 6 comments
We need a more challenging idea of religion.
Religion
Don't put your girl in TV, Mrs Worthington
- 24 January 2008
- 1 comment
Behind the sparkle and allure of broadcasting, a new kind of slave trade is developing
Asia
A revenger's tragedy
- 03 January 2008
- 24 comments
The intelligence services and religious extremists were behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, argues Ziauddin Sardar, and politicians have been too preoccupied with settling old scores to fight for real democracy
Religion
A common heritage for global peace
- 06 December 2007
- 6 comments
It is just not good enough to say that love of God will conquer all differences and usher in peace and harmony all around
Middle East
Benazir and the General
- 08 November 2007
- 8 comments
Never before has a military-backed government found it necessary to initiate its own military coup
Books
The battle at Islam's heart
- 01 November 2007
- 6 comments
In November 1979, armed militants took over Mecca's Sacred Mosque. Their actions still reverberate throughout the Muslim world.
World Affairs
A country at war
- 25 October 2007
- 13 comments
In the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto we revisit our October special on Pakistan in which Ziauddin Sardar predicted the country was about to descend deeper into violence. Plus Rageh Omaar on the wild borderlands of Waziristan
