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	Ziauddin Sardar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ziauddin Sardar is a writer, broadcaster and critic.
		Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman, June 14, 2004, 'Is Muslim civilisation set on a fixed course to decline?' Wahhabism, the Saudis' brand of Islam, negates the very idea of evolution in human thought and morality
		Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman, August 9, 2004, Lost in translation: most English-language editions of the Qur'an have contained numerous errors, omissions and distortions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ziauddin_Sardar (774 words)

	Review of Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader
		Sardar, in short, is as severe a critic of those who would erect repressive governments in the name of the Prophet as he is of those who would launch "crusades" against them.
		Sardar then traces the rise of the western idea of the nation-state, and its captivity by ideologies that are also fundamentally at odds with Muslim principles, so that "if the pursuit of an Islamic state becomes an ideology itself, then reason and justice are readily sacrificed to the alt[a]r of emotions.
		Sardar is concerned about the postmodern world itself which "does not represent a discontinuity with history, a sharp break from modernity, but an extension of the grand western narrative of secularism and its associated ideology of capitalism and bourgeois liberalism.
	www.futures.hawaii.edu /dator/reviews/ziau.html (4254 words)

	Redhotcurry.com - Books by Asian Authors. 'Desperately Seeking Paradise' by Ziauddin Sardar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ziauddin Sardar is one of the world's foremost Muslim intellectuals, and author of more than forty books on science, religion and contemporary culture.
		On his travels, Sardar meets other Muslims and speaks to them about their beliefs and he yearningly describes Islam's Golden Age when Muslim culture and civilisation was at its zenith.
		Broadcaster and columnist Ziauddin Sardar was born in 1951 in Dipalpur, North Pakistan and migrated with his family to London as a child.
	www.redhotcurry.com /entertainment/books/zsardar1.htm (342 words)

	Islamization of science
		A general notion in the works of Nasr and Sardar is their understanding of Islam as a comprehensive order for the individual and society.
		Sardar's conclusion is that science therefore is bound to a certain culture.
		Sardar and Nasr make a comparison between the results of modern science and technology, like the pollution of the environment, with a non-existing form of Islamic science - an Islamic ideal, a utopia.
	www.hf-fak.uib.no /institutter/smi/paj/Stenberg.html (2270 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Sufi Steve and the Peugeot dealer
		Sardar, who was born in Punjab and brought up in Hackney, east London, spent the 1960s as a Muslim student activist, protesting against Nasser's execution of the radical Egyptian religious thinker Sayyid Qutb in 1966, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 and the arson at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque in 1969.
		Sardar is shocked and saddened by the modernisation visited on the holy cities of Mecca and Medina by the Saudi royal family and what was then its favourite building contractor, the Saudi Bin Laden Group.
		Sardar travels to Pakistan, where he rows with President Zia-ul-Haq, and then China, where he offends his interpreter by not marrying her ("The Arab brothers," she sighs, "are always looking for a second or a third wife").
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/biography/0,6121,1267836,00.html (1065 words)

	Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar, 186207755X, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Sardar sees all these as a perversion of Islam, as cases of rigidity and of arrested development and as a betrayal of the spirit of its golden age under the early Abbasids (roughly from the 9th to the 12th century) and from which the West learnt so much.
		What depresses Sardar is the realization that in so many parts of the world the rigidities and cruelties of the Sharia cannot be said to be imposed on the unwilling masses by the mullahs.
		Sardar is frequently depressed by the current state of the umma of which he cannot help but feel a member, and his book must be equally depressing for those readers who would like the efforts of the like of him to succeed.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/186207755X (1761 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ziauddin Sardar is an erudite man and an iconoclast.
		Sardar was born in the rural backwater of the Punjab.
		Sardar strongly felt that there was a tendency towards authoritarianism and hence this could not be his route to paradise.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050422/asp/opinion/story_4640040.asp (531 words)

	ReadySteadyBook - a literary site
		Sardar is described on the jacket of this book as 'one of the world's foremost Muslim intellectuals, and author of more than forty books on science, religion and contemporary culture'.
		Sardar's interests are varied, and he is not ashamed to change his views over the years.
		Sardar has been criticized in The Spectator for 'having his baclava and eating it', but his position - that Rushdie should neither be punished nor forgiven - seems to me entirely understandable.
	www.readysteadybook.com /BookReview.aspx?isbn=1862076502 (587 words)

	sardar
		Sardar rode this new wave of opportunities, joined one of these new institutions and benefited from the petro-dollars that were poured into organizations such as the Muslim World League.
		Sardar soon became disillusioned with the institutions which had emerged on the strength of petro-dollars and he found the discourse on Islamic science moving in a “strangely irrational direction, being squeezed by two strangleholds.
		Sardars views are summarized by Ibrahim Kalin in his perceptive article “Three Views of Science in the Islamic World”(in God, Life and the Cosmos, edited by Ted Peters, Muzaffar Iqbal and Syed Nomanul Haq, Ashgate, 2002, pp.
	www.cis-ca.org /voices/s/sardar-mn.htm (1991 words)

	Tech Tidbit -- September 2, 2002
		Ziauddin Sardar's essay in the new edition of Technology and the Future (which is adapted from book, Rescuing All Our Futures, pictured above) is a stinging critique of futures studies.
		A distinguished and prolific writer, cultural critic, and intellectual, Ziauddin Sardar is a leading contemporary thinker on science, technology and Islam.
		Sardar is currently visiting professor of postcolonial studies in the Department of Arts Policy and Management of the City University in London.
	www.alteich.com /tidbits/t090202.htm (432 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Ziauddin Sardar on Pakistan's Hudood, Reforms in Morocco
		Amardeep Singh: Ziauddin Sardar on Pakistan's Hudood, Reforms in Morocco
		Ziauddin Sardar on Pakistan's Hudood, Reforms in Morocco
		Today's contribution is Ziauddin Sardar, who has a piece in this week's New Statesman.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/09/ziauddin-sardar-on-pakistans-hudood.html (911 words)

	Alibris: Ziauddin Sardar
		Kuala Lumpur is the postmodern city writ large, a city that, within the short span of a decade, has been transformed from a sleepy capital into a technological marvel with a thriving, diverse and affluent cultural life.
		Sardar examines the roots of chaos in modern mathematics and physics, and explores the relationship between chaos and complexity--the new unifying theory which suggests that all complex systems evolve from a few simple rules.
		Sardar and Malik focus on what consititutes the World of Islam and what influences will shape the future of the Muslim world.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Sardar,Ziauddin (1172 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim - Ziauddin Sardar - ...
		Sardar has written a curious, often amusing travelogue of his quest for understanding and the Muslims he has encountered along his journeys.
		Pakistani by birth (in 1951) but raised in Britain, Sardar studied physics, but got sidetracked early into popular science writing and politics, becoming a member of FOSIS (the Federation of Students Islamic Society), an intellectual group opposed to the right-wing Muslim Brotherhood.
		Sardar has done the necessary background reading to fill readers in, he never preaches, and despite what sometimes seems a dismaying array of evidence otherwise, he never loses hope for the future of Muslim civilization.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=186207755X&itm=1 (438 words)

	Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and Ziauddin Sardar
		Ziauddin Sardar, author of 'Why do people hate America?', and Professor Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, author of 'Cloak and Dollar', attempted to justify today's prevalent anti-Americanism to a packed marquee.
		Jeffreys-Jones was the more moderate of the two, stating that he is not 'anti-American' whilst Sardar loves and hates the country in equal 'measure'.
		Whilst I am not sure that the US economy would collapse without wars, as Sardar claimed, the influence of defence lobbying is not generally beneficient.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /edinburgh2002/america.htm (578 words)

	NS Library - Ziauddin Sardar
		Ziauddin Sardar reports from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
		Ziauddin Sardar - on the culture of martyrdom
		Ziauddin Sardar toured some of its most populous and important countries, meeting senior leaders and thinkers, and he returned hopeful
	www.newstatesman.com /writers/Ziauddin_Sardar (355 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Battle for Islam \| Viewpoint: The global voices reclaiming Islam
		Ziauddin Sardar, travelling around several Muslim countries, finds that thinkers, activists, political leaders and ordinary Muslims across the globe are refusing to be defined by the ideology of violence and intolerance, but their responses are diverse.
		It is, however, beyond question that to understand the changes taking place in the Muslim world, and appreciate how Islam is being reformed, one has to listen to these voices from the edge.
		Battle for Islam, presented by Ziauddin Sardar, was broadcast on BBC Two at 2100 BST on Monday, 5 September, 2005.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/battle_for_islam/4203918.stm (953 words)

	Rethinking Islam - By Professor Ziauddin Sardar
		In a sense, the movement towards synthesis is an advance towards the primary meaning and message of Islam –; as a moral and ethical way of looking and shaping the world, as a domain of peaceful civic culture, a participatory endeavour, and a holistic mode of knowing, being and doing.
		Ziauddin Sardar: A cultural critic, Muslim scholar, author of many books, and editor of Futures: The Journal of Planning, Policy, and Futures Studies.
		His newest book is Ziauddin Sardar's A-Z of Postmodern Life (Visions Publications, Feb 2002).
	www.islamfortoday.com /sardar01.htm (3005 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Postmodernism and the Other: New Imperialism of Western Culture: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sardar tackles the issues of liberalisation (yeah, like that exists!), colonialism, prejudice with upmost poignancy.
		Sardar creates an healthy fire in your belly and makes you want to question everything and nothing.
		Sardar makes you realise that nothing is apolitical; everything we see and are exposd to are shrouded in the past, in colnialism, in the empire, in the discovery of countires, in the East/ West Divide.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0745307493 (588 words)

	M A C V A Y S I A: Ziauddin Sardar on Change in Islam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		M A C V A Y S I A: Ziauddin Sardar on Change in Islam
		I was going to post a little excerpt of this article by Ziauddin Sardar, but I don't have the full link and I'm not sure if it would be available after a certain period of time (because articles at many sites like the NY Times are by subscription only).
		Ziauddin Sardar's Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim is published by Granta Books (£16.99)
	macvaysia.blogspot.com /2004/09/ziauddin-sardar-on-change-in-islam.html (2225 words)

	BBC - Press Office - HARDtalk Ziauddin Sardar
		On BBC News 24's HARDtalk tonight (Friday 14 February 2003) Sarah Montague interviews Ziauddin Sardar, Muslim writer and academic.
		Polls show that moderate Muslims have grave concerns about an attack on Iraq, and there are fears that extremist groups around the world will use any military action to further their own aims.
		Ziauddin Sardar is an academic who says moderate Muslims need to speak out against fanatics who seek to distort Islam.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/02_february/14/hardtalk_sardarz.shtml (203 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Battle for Islam \| Ziauddin Sardar's journey through Islam
		Ziauddin Sardar went to five key countries where Islam is practised, to find out how Muslims there are trying to rescue their faith from those bent on abusing it.
		The move aroused strong opposition and was rejected during heated debate about the sweeping reforms designed to prepare Turkey for EU membership.
		Battle for Islam, a 90-minute documentary presented by Ziauddin Sardar, will be shown on BBC Two on Monday, 5 September, 2005, at 2100 BST.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/battle_for_islam/4180604.stm (842 words)

	Mere Islam: Ziauddin Sardar, C. S. Lewis and “Mere Islam”
		I strongly agree with you about the writings of Ziauddin Sardar and that his books should be avoided when introducing Islam to non-Muslims—if not altogether.
		Even though I've read Ziauddin Sardar's writings before, I was rather surprised how far he goes in this article in disagreeing with agreed upon aspects of Islam and praising the half-baked movement of so-called "Liberal" and "Progressive" Muslims.
		Once this approach is accepted, textual interpretation tends to head wherever one already wants to go—whether the Reformist Left of Ziauddin Sardar or the Militant Right of Osama Bin Ladin.
	www.mereislam.info /2004/09/ziauddin-sardar-c-s-lewis-and-mere.html (1731 words)

	iB::Topic::Discussion: islam, postmodernism and other ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SUMMARY: *image1Now for the first time, a collection of writings by Dr. Ziauddin* Sardar is available in paperback format.
		In 1986, Sardar authored The Future of Muslim Civilization, and established the field of Muslim Futures.
		Thanks God for people like Proffessor Ziauddin Sardar, he has changed my life for the better.
	www.wnrf.org /cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=1;t=484;r=1;&#top (299 words)

	Amazon.com: Introducing Cultural Studies, 2nd Edition: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ziauddin Sardar's "Introduction to Cultural Studies" is nothing more than the title indicates.
		This lenghty essay merely presents basic concepts that are prevalent in a postmodern discourse between societal values, power relations, and the value placed on cultural "norms" given in various communities.
		Sardar presents the history of Cultural Studies as a discipline, which begins in a social context, but the analysis of which, takes place by various sociologists, philosophers (primarily Freud, Nietzche, and Hegel), and literary minds.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1840460741?v=glance (478 words)

	Biography of Ziauddin Sardar - 9 June 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Biography of Ziauddin Sardar - 9 June 2004
		In order to find genuine enlightenment, one needs to go beyond the prevailing secular world-view, and there can be few better guides in this journey than Ziauddin Sardar.A rationalist who is not afraid to doubt reason, Sardar exemplifies a kind of scepticism unknown to the anxious, certainty seeking secular mind.
		John Gray, reviewing Ziauddin Sardar's latest book Desperately Seeking Paradise in the Independent newspaper 18 June 2004
	www.counterpoint-online.org /item/533 (251 words)

	TheStar.com - The struggle for Islam's soul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While most Muslims abhor violence, some terrorists are a product of a specific mindset with deep roots in Islamic history.
		Ziauddin Sardar is a leading Muslim writer and author of more than 30 books, including Desperately Seeking Paradise: journeys of a sceptical Muslim.
		Distribution, transmission or republication of any material from www.thestar.com is strictly prohibited without the prior written permission of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited.
	www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1121941845096&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795 (2029 words)

	New Statesman - Put blame for BSE where it belongs
		Freedom, tolerance, human rights, civil liberty and the rule of law slowly fell off the radar screen.
		Ziauddin Sardar exposes the persistent failures and habitual secrecy of a government ministry
		Brace yourself for a public uproar when the Phillips report into the BSE scandal is published in a few days.
	www.newstatesman.com /200010230011.htm (955 words)

	Granta: Calendar: Malise Ruthven & Ziauddin Sardar at Edinburgh Festival
		Since September 11 and the invasion of Iraq, tensions between America and much of the Islamic world have risen steeply.
		Author of 'A Fury for God' Malise Ruthven, a leading authority on Islam, discusses the latest manifestations of Islamic hostility towards America, and what might happen in the future.
		Ziauddin Sardar, renowned critic and author of 'Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journey of a Sceptical Muslim' is one of the UK's foremost Muslim intellects, and will join Malise in discussing the subject 'East and West: Islam and America'.
	www.granta.com /calendar/event?cal_item_id=732355 (118 words)

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