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Ziauddin Sardar, writer, broadcaster and cultural critic, is Visiting Professor, the School of Arts, The City University, London. He has been described as a ‘critical polymath’ and works across a number of disciplines ranging from Islamic studies and futures studies to science policy, literary criticism, information science to cultural relations, art criticism and critical theory. He was born in Pakistan in 1951 and grew up in Hackney, East London. Ziauddin Sardar has worked as science journalist for Nature and New Scientist and as a television reporter for London Weekend Television. He was a columnist on the New Statesman for a number of years and has served as a Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and as a member of the Interim National Security Forum. Ziauddin Sardar has published over 45 books. The Future of Muslim Civilisation (1979) and Islamic Futures: The Shape of Ideas to Come (1985) are regarded as classic studies on the future of Islam. He pioneered the discussion on science in Muslim societies, with a series of articles in Nature and New Scientist and a number of books, including Science, Technology and Development in the Muslim World (1977), ­The Touch of Midas: Science, Values and the Environment in Islam and the West­­ (1982), which is seen as a seminal work, ­­The Revenge of Athena: Science, Exploitation and the Third World­ (1988) andExplorations in Islamic Science­ (1989). Postmodernism and the Other (1998) has acquired a cultish following and Why Do People Hate America? (2002) became an international bestseller. Ziauddin Sardar’s two volumes of biography and travel, Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim (2004) and Balti Britain: A Provocative Journey Through Asian Britain (2008) have received wide acclaim. He has also authored a number of study guides in the Introducing series, including the international bestsellers Introducing Islam and Introducing Chaos. Two collections of his writings are available as Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader (2003) and How Do You Know?: Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations (2006). Ziauddin Sardar has written and presented numerous television programmes – most recently ‘Battle for Islam’, a 90-minute documentary for BBC2 and ‘Dispatches’ on Pakistan for Channel 4. His earlier programmes include ‘Encounters with Islam’ (1985), a series of four shows for BBC and ‘Islamic Conversations’ (1994), a series of six programmes for Channel 4. He was a regular Friday Panel Member on ‘World News Tonight’ on Sky News (2005-2007). Ziauddin Sardar is Chair of the Muslim Institute, a learned, fellowship society that promotes knowledge and thought from a critical Muslim perspective. He is the also the Chair of the Black Umbrella Trust, the publishers of Third Text, a journal that provides ‘critical perspectives on contemporary art and culture’, which he co-edited from 1996 to 2006. Ziauddin Sardar is the editor of Futures, the monthly journal of policy, planning and futures studies, and a regular contributor to the New Statesman, the Guardianand book pages of the Independent. He is widely known for his radio and television appearances. With support from the Hardt-Nickachos Peace Studies Endowment, the religious studies faculty of the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, and the Institute of Humanities Research research cluster on “Imaginaires of Islamic Modernity.”

Introducing Islam to Others - Jummah Khutbahs - Sheikh Mohammed Sindhi

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