Ziauddin sardar biography
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Ziauddin Sardar (Urdu: ضیاء الدین سردار; born 31 October 1951, Pakistan) is a London-based scholar, writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futures studies and science and cultural relations.
Ziauddin sardar biography
Prospect magazine has named him as one of Britain's top 100 public intellectuals and The Independent newspaper calls him: 'Britain's own Muslim polymath'.
Brief biography
Ziauddin Sardar was born in Pakistan, but educated and brought up in Britain.
He read physics and then information science at the City University, London. After a five-year stint at King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – where he became a leading authority on the hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca —– he returned to work as Middle East correspondent of the science magazines Nature and New Scientist.
In 1982, he joined London Weekend Television as a reporter and helped launch the trend setting Asian programme 'Eastern Eye'. In the early 1980s, he was