1st Edition
Celebrating a Life Beyond “Normal” A Festschrift for Ziauddin Sardar
Introduction: Ziauddin Sardar Festschrift
Christopher B. Jones
1. A Postnormal Election in Postnormal Times
Brad Bullock
2. Postnormal Despite Himself
Jordi Serra del Pino
3. A Conversation with Zia Sardar
Liam Mayo
4. The Ultimate Post-Islamist: Ziauddin Sardar’s Cultural Surfing Through Our Epoch
Abdelwahab El-Affendi
5. Ziauddin Sardar’s Approach to the Qur’an: Timely Lessons from Sura Al-Baqara
Bruce B. Lawrence
6. Cultural Relations in a New Century
Martin Rose
7. Sardar, Islam, Normal, Post Normal, Identity, and I
Jim Dator
8. Zia and Me
Jerry Ravetz
9. “Britain’s Own Muslim Polymath:” On the Politics of Representing Ziauddin Sardar
Vinay Lal
10. Ziauddin Sardar: The New Muslim Man Seeking his Paradise
Iftikhar H. Malik
11. Reading Ziauddin Sardar on “Self” and “Other” in Post-Normal Times
Tahir Abbas
12. Epiritu Opposisi
C Scott Jordan
13. Hypernormal Films for Postnormal Times: The Documentary Dance of Adam Curtis
Boyd Tonkin
14. Qiyama as Rebellion, Taqiyya as Hypercamouflage: The Political Theology of Reza Negarestani
Carool Kersten
Afterword
Faisal Devji
Biography
Christopher Jones, Ph.D. is Senior Fellow, Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies, London, United Kingdom; Executive Director, the Transnormal Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States; and, Faculty, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. He has taught in the University of Hawaii's and University of Houston's futures studies programs and was Secretary-General of the World Futures Studies Federation (2001-2005).
