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How Do You Know?: Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural RelationsZiauddin SardarYour Price: $45.99 This book qualifies for Free Shipping! 
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Annotation "How Do You Know?" brings together in one volume the selected writings of author, cultural commentator, broadcaster, and critic, Zia Sardar. One of the United Kingdom's leading public intellectuals, Sardar most recently prsented a documentary for the BBC, "Battle for Islam." A prolific writer, his columns in the "Observer" and "Independent" and his articles for the "New Statesman" have a wide and loyal readership. He is the author of more than forty books. In 2002, his book "Why Do People Hate America?" was a U.S. bestseller, while his first volume of memoirs was published to great acclaim last year. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sardar wrote a series of pathbreaking books on Islam, science, education, and the environment of sustainable development. These include "Explorations in Islamic Science" (1989) and "Science Values and the Environment in Islam and the West" (1982). This book brings together a selection of Sardar's earliest writings, together with some of his latest work on cultural relations. Taking as key themes Islam, science, and cultural relations, the material here is drawn from a wide range of sources and provides the ideal way in for students to want to come to grips with his thought. "How Do You Know?" is a companion volume to the previous Sardar reader, "Islam, Postmodernism, and Ot her Futures" (Pluto, 2003). Publisher Description Ziauddin Sardar is one of the world's leading public intellectuals. A broadcaster and cultural commentator, he is the author of over 40 books. His co-authored book Why Do People Hate America? was an international bestseller, and his autobiography, Desperately Seeking Paradise received wide acclaim. Since 9/11 he has been an important Muslim voice in mainstream western media. This book is the perfect introduction to his thinking that brings together some of his key writings in one volume. It provides extracts from many of his most acclaimed books, from his early writing right through to his latest thinking. Organised in clear chapters, the extracts are carefully chosen to explore the themes of Islam, science and cultural relations. Drawn from a wide range of sources, this Zia Sardar reader is an accessible introduction to the thinking of one of the leading cultural theorists of our time. "One of the finest intellectuals on the planet." Herald Praise for Why Do People Hate America? "[A] sophisticated and grimly amusing analysis." Houston Chronicle "[A] useful challenge to the common American assumption that foreigners who dislike us are ill-informed, envious or "evil." Baltimore Sun "Packed with tightly argued points." Times Higher Education Supplement Praise for Desperately Seeking Paradise: "Bounds forth with extraordinary energy and lightness, propelled at all stages by a passion for knowledge and inquiry." New Statesman "At once earnest and humorous, light-hearted and profound, this is a book that displays a sustained capacity for self-questioning of a kind that has few parallels in the liberal West." Independent Author Biography Ziauddin Sardar is Visiting Professor of Science Policy at Middlesex University and consulting editor of the prestigious journal Futures. He is a prolific writer and is the author of Cultural Studies for Beginners, Barbaric Others: A Manifesto on Western Racism and editor, with Jerome Ravetz, of Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Superhighway. |
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