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 ethics of responsibility. For life to have meaning, we need to stop pursuing our own interests and learn to share. Giving is what makes us human. This is a message common to all religions, writes Ziauddin Sardar
- 09 January 2006
To Heal a Fractured World
Jonathan Sacks Continuum, 288pp, £16.99
ISBN 0826486223
Society
Ziauddin Sardar justifies his radical haircut
- 19 December 2005
"These awful dreadlocks are a sure give-away," the girl said. That was it. The next morning I went to the barber
Politics
The next holocaust
- 05 December 2005
- 2 comments
Islamophobia is not a uniquely British disease: across Europe, liberals openly express prejudice against Muslims. Do new pogroms beckon? Ziauddin Sardar reports from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Society
Ziauddin Sardar - on the culture of martyrdom
- 28 November 2005
If suicide killing was a viable weapon of just war, then the Prophet Muhammad would have used it
Society
Ziauddin Sardar explains the long history of violence behind Hizb ut-Tahrir
- 14 November 2005
- 1 comment
What Hizb ut-Tahrir peddles is escapist fascism that appeals to people who want to be told what to do
Society
Young Muslims hold the key
- 15 August 2005
They are the only ones their alienated and angry peers will listen to, argues Ziauddin Sardar
Politics
Islam: the tide of change
- 08 August 2005
The Muslim world is not the medieval monolith we in the west often imagine. Ziauddin Sardar toured some of its most populous and important countries, meeting senior leaders and thinkers, and he returned hopeful
Books
The metropolis with seven billion people . Multiculturalism is dead, according to its critics. But the logic of globalisation means an increasing number of people from different cultures living together in future. Ziauddin Sardar wonders if we can ever all get on
- 01 August 2005
Multicultural Politics: racism, ethnicity and Muslims in Britain
Tariq Modood Edinburgh University Press, 272pp, £45 (hbk)/£16.99 (pbk)
ISBN 0748621725
After the Cosmopolitan?: multicultural cities and the future of racism
Michael Keith Routledge, 232pp, £65 (hbk)/£21.99 (pbk)
Society
Beyond blame and shame: what we must do now
- 25 July 2005
Terror and the UK: Young Muslims have been totally marginalised by their "community leaders". Nothing will change until they are given representation, argues Ziauddin Sardar
