Professor Ziauddin Sardar, an internationally renowned writer, scholar, futurist, and cultural critic, is former chair of the Muslim Institute. He is the author of over 60 books, including two volumes of highly acclaimed autobiography, Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim and Balti Britain: A Provocative Journey Through Asian Britain, Reading the Qur’an, Mecca: The Sacred City, and the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America? A collection of his writings is available as Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader and How Do You Know? Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations. His latest books are A Person of Pakistani Origins and Three Begums: The Women Who Shaped My Life. A former Professor of Law and Society at Middlesex University and columnist on the New Statesman, he is the Director of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies (CPPFS) and Director of the International Institute of Futures Studies (IIFS) at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He is also the editor of the influential quarterly Critical Muslim.
