Ziauddin Sardar

Ziauddin Sardar (born 31 October 1951) is a British-Pakistani scholar, writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought. Prospect magazine named him one of Britain's top 100 public intellectuals, and The Independent called him 'Britain's own Muslim polymath'. ^{1 2}

He was born in Dipalpur, Punjab, Pakistan, and was educated and brought up in Britain. He read physics and then information science at City University, London. ¹

He spent five years at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, where he became an authority on the Hajj, then returned to work as Middle East correspondent of Nature and New Scientist, joined London Weekend Television in 1982, and was among the founders of Inquiry, a magazine of Muslim ideas and policy. He edited the journal Futures from 1999, launched the quarterly Critical Muslim in 2012, established the Center for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies in 2014, and was appointed director of the International Institute of Futures Studies at the International Islamic University Malaysia in 2025. He has written and edited more than sixty books. ¹

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