Orbits of DesireZiauddin Sardar10 April 2026Let’s begin with the great man himself. The Grand Sheikh. The celebrated portrayer of desires. The anthology of celebrated poems by Muhyiddin Ibn…Read moreThis is the BBCZiauddin Sardar10 April 2026Mrs Robertson lived two doors down from my humble abode in north London. She had one daughter who migrated to Australia. In her early seventies she…Read moreAfterthoughts: Transnormal, the “New Normal” and Other Varieties of “Normal” in Postnormal TimesZiauddin Sardar9 May 2025Abstract What is normal? And what constitutes “the new normal”? This article argues that the much vaunted “new normal” is nothing more th…Read morePOLYLOGUES: CONNECTING MINDS TO CREATE THE FUTUREZiauddin Sardar9 May 2025Our survival as individuals, communities and cultures, and the endurance of our planet, depends on embracing difference in all its numerous forms wr…Read morePostnormal Times RevisitedZiauddin Sardar6 July 2020Published in Futures 67 26-38 2015 Abstract Postnormal times (PNT) have been characterised by complexity, chaos and contradictions. But PNT th…Read moreThe smog of ignorance: Knowledge and wisdom in postnormal timesZiauddin Sardar22 June 2020From Futures 120 (2020) 102554 Abstract Using the Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy as a template, this paper explores…Read morePostnormal ArtefactsZiauddin Sardar22 June 2020From World Future Review 2015, Vol. 7(4) 342– 350 Abstract We are entering a new period of history—postnormal times, where increasingly wh…Read moreConquests, chaos and complexity: The Other in modern and postmodern scienceZiauddin Sardar14 May 2018From Futures 26 (6) 665-682 (July/August 1994). Western civilization has appropriated the scientific achievements of all Other civilizations, d…Read moreColonising the future: The 'other' dimension of futures studiesZiauddin Sardar14 May 2018From Futures 25 (3) 1993. The evolution of futures studies since World War II has followed a well defined pattern: at each phase of its…Read moreCritical MuslimZiauddin Sardar12 May 2018Seminar 653 87-92 January 2014. THE latest fatwa from Darul Uloom, Deoband, which is described as ‘India’s leading Islamic seminary’, illus…Read morePages123next ›last »
