Ziauddin Sardar

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Ziauddin Sardar

Ziauddin Sardar (born October 31, 1951 in Dipalpur , Okara District , Punjab , Pakistan ) is a British writer, historian, television producer and cultural critic of Pakistani origin living in London . He is considered one of the UK's leading Islamic intellectuals, specializing in areas such as the future of Islam, science and cultural relations. In the debate about the " Islamization of knowledge " and the "Islamization of science" ( Islamization of science ), which was carried out primarily from the US International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) near Washington, DC ) Sardar is often mentioned together with the American-Persian Islamic philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr (born 1933).

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Ziauddin Sardar came to England from Pakistan as a child and grew up in London. He studied physics and computer science at City University in London . In 1975 he developed a simulation model for the pilgrimage on behalf of the Hajj Research Center at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah ( Saudi Arabia ) . He edited Hajj Studies together with Zaki Badawi . He later worked for a time at Middlesex University , United Kingdom. He also worked as a journalist (including for Nature and New Scientist ) and as a television reporter. He was the editor of Futures , published regularly in the New Statesman, and is the founder of Critical Muslim magazine . He was visiting professor for Postcolonial Studies at City University in London. In his book Rescuing All Our Futures , he criticizes the one-sided Western vision of world development and encourages the rest of the world to actively work for a future that takes non-Western values ​​into account.

Sardar describes in his autobiographical novel Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Skeptical Muslim (2005; “Desperate Search for Paradise: Journeys of a Skeptical Muslim ”) his search for the ideal of Islam. After meeting Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Sardar began to increasingly question the ready- made solutions of fundamentalists who expected salvation from an Islamic state based on Sharia law .

The British magazine Prospect voted him one of the 100 best-known intellectuals in Great Britain , the British daily The Independent called him: 'Britain's own Muslim polymath'.

In view of the major construction projects in Mecca , in particular the Abraj Al Bait Towers and the Jabal Omer complex, Ziauddin Sardar warned that Mecca was degenerating into a kind of Disneyland and spoke of the destruction of Mecca .

Ziauddin Sardar has published more than forty books on various aspects of Islam. He wrote several of his books with the Welsh anthropologist Merryl Wyn Davies, who has converted to Islam .

He was one of the speakers at the 2017 IIIT European Summer School, organized by the London office of the US International Institute of Islamic Thought .

Publications (selection)

  • Where does the hatred of America come from? Jump: To Cleats, 2003
  • The Foreign Orient: History of a Prejudice . Berlin: Wagenbach, 2002
  • Science, Technology and Development in the Muslim World , London: Croom Helm; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1977, ISBN 9780391007710
  • Muhammad: Aspects of His Biography , Leicester: Islamic Foundation, 1978, ISBN 9780860370239
  • Hajj Studies (co-author: MA Zaki Badawi ), London: Crown Helm, 1978, ISBN 9780856646812
  • Islam: Outline of a Classification Scheme , London: C. Bingley; New York: KG Saur, 1979, ISBN 9780851572857
  • The Future of Muslim Civilization , London: Croom Helm, 1979, ISBN 9780856648007
  • Science and Technology in the Middle East: A Guide to Issues, Organizations and Institutions , London; New York: Longman, 1982, ISBN 9780582900523
  • The Touch of Midas: Science, Values ​​and the Environment in Islam and the West , Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984, ISBN 9780719009747
  • Islamic Futures: The Shape of Ideas to Come , London; New York: Mansell, 1985, ISBN 9780720117318
  • Shaping Information Systems in the Islamic World , London: Mansell, 1988, ISBN 9789679782561
  • Information and the Muslim World: A Strategy for the Twenty-first Century , London; New York: Mansell, 1988, ISBN 9780720117288
  • The Revenge of Athena: Science, Exploitation and the Third World , London; New York: Mansell, 1988, ISBN 9780720118919
  • An Early Crescent: The Future of Knowledge and Environment in Islam , London; New York: Mansell, 1989, ISBN 9780720120059
  • Explorations in Islamic Science , London; New York: Mansell, 1989, ISBN 9780720120042
  • Faces of Islam: Conversations on Contemporary Issues (co-author: Merryl Wyn Davies), Kuala Lumpur: Berita, 1989, ISBN 9789679691887
  • Distorted Imagination: Lessons from the Rushdie Affair (co-author: Merryl Wyn Davies), London: Gray Seal; Kuala Lumpur: Berita, 1990, ISBN 9781856400008
  • How We Know: Ilm and the Revival of Knowledge , London: Gray Seal, 1991, ISBN 9781856400206
  • Barbaric Others: A Manifesto on Western Racism (Coauthor: Merryl Wyn Davies i Ashis Nandy), London; Boulder, Colorado: Pluto Press, 1993, ISBN 9780745307435
  • Muslim Minorities in The West (kourednik: Syed Zainul Abedin), London: Gray Seal, 1995, ISBN 9781856400329
  • Postmodernism and the Other: New Imperialism of Western Culture , London; Chicago; Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 1998, ISBN 9780745307497
  • Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of Future Studies , Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1999, ISBN 9780275965594
  • Orientalism , Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780335202065
  • Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars , Duxford, Cambridge: Icon Books; New York: Totem Books, 2000, ISBN 9781840461367
  • The Consumption of Kuala Lumpur , London: Reaction, 2000, ISBN 9781861890573
  • The Third Text Reader on Art, Culture & Theory (kourednici: Rasheed Araeen i Sean Cubitt), London; New York: Continuum, 2002, ISBN 9780826458513
  • Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema (kourednik: Sean Cubitt), London; Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2002, ISBN 9780745315447
  • The A to Z of Postmodern Life: Essays on Global Culture in the Noughties , London: Vision, 2002, ISBN 9781904132035
  • Why Do People Hate America? (Co-author: Merryl Wyn Davies), New York: Disinformation, 2002, ISBN 9780971394254
  • Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader (urednici: Sohail Inayatullah i Gail Boxwell), London; Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2003, ISBN 9780745319858
  • The No Nonsense Guide to Islam (Co-author: Merryl Wyn Davies), Oxford: New Internationalist Publications, 2004, ISBN 9781859844540
  • Introducing Islam , Icon Books Ltd Edition, 2004, SBN 1840465824
  • American Dream, Global Nightmare (co-author: Merryl Wyn Davies), Thriplow, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2004, ISBN 9781840465723
  • Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Skeptical Muslim , London: Granta Books, 2005, ISBN 9781862077553
  • What Do Muslims Believe? , London: Granta Books, 2006, ISBN 9781862078345
  • How do you know? Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations (urednik: Ehsan Masood), London: Pluto Press, 2006, ISBN 9780745325149
  • Balti Britain: A Journey Through the British Asian Experience , London: Granta Books, 2008, ISBN 9781862079311
  • Breaking the Monolith: Essays, Articles and Columns on Islam, India, Terror and Other Things That Annoy Me , Delhi: ImprintOne; Cambridge University Press , 2008, ISBN 9788188861057
  • Does America want change? (Co-author: Merryl Wyn Davies), Thriplow, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2008, ISBN 9781840468793
  • Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam , Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press , 2011, ISBN 9780199836741
  • Muslims In Britain: Making Social and Political Space (kourednik: Waqar IU Ahmad), London, New York: Routledge , 2012, ISBN 9780415594721
  • Muhammad: All That Matters , London: Hodder Education; New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012, ISBN 9781444154627
  • Future: All That Matters , London: Hodder Education, 2013, ISBN 9781444190045
  • Mecca: The Sacred City , London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2014, ISBN 9781620402665
  • Islam Beyond Mad Max Jihadis , London: Biteback, 2016, ISBN 9781849549493

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ For example, he divided Islamic Science into four schools, including his own as the Ijmali school of thought ( Ijmalism ). - See Studies in the Islam and Science Nexus , Volume 1, 2012, edited by Muzaffar Iqbal ( partial online view ) & “Islamic science: The Contemporary Debate” by Ziauddin Sardar, in: Helaine Selin (Ed.): Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-West Cultures. 1997, pp. 455–458 ( partial online view )
  2. ↑ or the introduction of Islam in the knowledge or the Islamization of knowledge (Engl. Islamization of knowledge ).
  3. ↑ cf. z. B. Leif Stenberg, University of Lund (org.uib.no). The author Leif Stenberg reveals that Nasr's judgment of Sardar is not particularly friendly: “Nasr states that Sardar is uneducated. In his eyes Sardar does not have the ability to make correct interpretations of the Islamic tradition. He is, he says, a person who just add the word Islamic to various disciplines and think that this is enough. "
  4. ↑ London: Croom Helm for Hajj Research Center, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, [1978] -
  5. ↑ criticalmuslim.io: What is Critical Muslim?
  6. ↑ Interview with the Islamic scholar Ziauddin Sardar: For a change in consciousness in Islam
  7. ↑ Pat Kane: The A to Z of Postmodern Life, by Ziauddin Sardar . In: The Independent , May 28, 2002. Retrieved October 27, 2017. 
  8. ↑ Michael Kerr, Mecca has turned into Disneyland , in: The Telegraph on October 2, 2014. Sardar also calls it a "grotesque Metropolis". - accessed on October 27, 2017.
  9. ↑ On Merryl Wyn Davies, cf. Katharina Lange: "Bringing back what belongs to us": tendencies towards indigenization in Arab ethnology. 2005 ( partial online view ). See also Damian Howard: Being Human in Islam: The Impact of the Evolutionary Worldview. 2011 ( & partial online view )
  10. ↑ IIIT European Summer School 2017 - Centar za napredne studije / Center for Advanced Studies, Sarajevo (accessed on November 4, 2017). - Together with Jonathan AC Brown (the director of the Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talaal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the American capital Washington, DC, financed by the Saudi Arabian investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal ) and the European IIIT directors Beddy Ebnou ( Brussels , Belgium ) and Ahmet Alibašić ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ).

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SURNAME Sardar, Ziauddin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sardar, Ziauddin; Sardar, Zia; Sardār, Ḍijā'ddīn; Sardār, Dịyā-ad-Dīn; Sardār, Z̤iyāʾ-ad-Dīn; Z̤iyāʾ-ad-Dīn Sardār; Sardār, Z̤iyāʾuddīn; Z̤iyāʾuddīn Sardār; Sardār, Ḍiyāʾ-ad-Dīn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Pakistani writer, historian, television producer and cultural critic; Personality of Islam in Great Britain
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Dipalpur , Pakistan