The Ultimate Post-Islamist: Ziauddin Sardar’s Cultural Surfing Through Our Epoch

Abstract

Ziauddin Sardar has had a uniquely rich life experience, and an equally unique ability to share it. In both geographical and historical terms, few individuals have had the opportunity to witness so many great transformations, from an insider vantage point. The focus of this paper is his transition through the transformations of modern Islamic activism, a process with far-reaching consequences, and he was in the thick of it all. One issue highlighted is the Western origins of Islamism.