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Book SynopsisAn introduction to leading British Muslim intellectual, author, journalist and cultural commentator
Trade Review'This invaluable sampler of Sadar's strenuous, but satisfying, work offers no pat solutions but a truly invigorating quest' -- The Independent, April 2003.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: the Other Futurist
1. Rethinking Islam
2. Reconstructing the Muslim Civilisation
3. Permanence and Change in Islam
4. The Shariah as a Problem Solving Methodology
5. Islam and Nationalism
6. Paper, Printing and Compact Discs
7. Reformist Ideas and Muslim Intellectuals: The Demands of the Real World
II: Postmodernism
8. When the Pendulum Comes to Rest
9. Walt Disney and the Double Victimisation of Pocahontas
10. Christian-Muslim Relations in the Postmodern Age
11. Total Recall: Aliens, Others and Amnesia in Postmodern Thought
12. Bosnia and the Postmodern Embrace of Evil
13. Postmodern(ising) Quawwali
14. The End of Civilisation?
III: Other Futures
15. The Problem of Futures Studies
16. Asian Cultures: Between Programmed and Desired Futures
17. Other Futures: Non-Western Cultures in Futures Studies
18. Medicine in Multicultural Society
19 Beyond Development: An Islamic Perspective
20. What Chaos? What Coherence? -Across the River I called
Bibliography : Ziauddin Sardar - A Working Bibliography by Gail Boxwell
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