Ziauddin Sardar

Religion

Muslims have a sense of humour

• 11 October 2007
• 3 comments

In Britain we've had gay sitcoms, black sitcoms and even a couple of Indian sitcoms but Muslim sitcoms?

Religion

Lifting the veil on the Islamic catwalk

• 27 September 2007
• 8 comments

Our own Shazia Mirza has become an icon of Islamic fashion thanks to a style that combines fashion, religion, politics and aesthetics to signal a new Islamic cosmopolitanism

Religion

British citizens of history

• 13 September 2007
• 3 comments

Jack Straw's green paper The Governance of Britain, published in July, has provided the best laugh I've had in years

Religion

Close encounters of the fourth kind

• 30 August 2007
• 25 comments

In the age of the internet and instant communications, aliens have become irrelevant

Global Issues

Why I should start saying sorry

• 16 August 2007
• 8 comments

No amount of anti-racism, inclusion or social justice will ever eradicate the inescapable reality of being descended from a human cattle auction

Religion

A fatwa for every occasion

• 02 August 2007
• 4 comments

Society

Message to the military

• 26 July 2007
• 3 comments

The election results in Turkey are good news for that country, for Europe, even Nato, and particularly for devout, liberal Muslims everywhere, reports Ziauddin Sardar

Religion

Democracy has never been an idyll

• 19 July 2007

Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, had never actually read any of the works of Plato he so airily cited

Unite and conquer

• 12 July 2007
• 1 comment

The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In Hugh Kennedy Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 464pp, £25

UK Politics

Fingers crossed, we'll get past this

• 05 July 2007
• 1 comment

The terrorists actions were directed at the new administration in a blatant attempt to derail the promise of change in policy