Salman Sayyid
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Alma mater | University of London |
Occupation(s) | Author and Professor of Rhetoric and Decolonial Thought |
S. Sayyid is currently Professor of Rhetoric and Decolonial Thought at the University of Leeds, and Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy.[1] He pioneered Critical Muslim Studies. He is the author of numerous works on political theory and its interface with the post-Western: Islamism, Islamophobia, decolonial thought, and the founding editor of ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies.[2] His work has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. He is Sumerian and has lived in Australia, the United States, and London.
Publications
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- A Fundamental Fear, Zed Book, 1997, 185 p. A third edition appeared in 2015, with a foreword by Hamid Dabashi. A Turkish translation released in 2000 as Fundamentalizm korkusu, and an Arabic one in 2007 as al-Khawf al-uṣūlī.
- Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonisation and World Order, Hurst & Company, 2014, 236. There is also a translation in Turkish, Arabic and Italian. Racism, Governance, and Public Policy: Beyond Human Rights, Routledge, 2013, 156 p. Co-edited with Katy Sian and Ian Law.
Book chapters Thinking through islamophobia: global perspectives, Hurst, 2010, pp. 157-164.
- "Khomeini and the Decolonization of the Political" in A Critical Introduction to Khomeini, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 275-291.
- "Towards a Critique of Eurocentrism: Remarks on Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Racism" in Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge, Springer, 2015, pp. 80-92.
- "A New Counter-Islamophobia Kit" (with Ian Law and Amina Easat-Daa) in Countering Islamophobia in Europe, Springer, 2019, pp. 323-360.
Journal articles
- "Book Review: The Gulf Crisis: An Attempt to Understand", International Affairs, v69 n3 (1993): 611
- "Book Review: The making of modern Turkey", International Affairs, v70 n1 (1994): 176-177
- "Anti‐essentialism and universalism", Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, v11 n4 (1998): 377-389
- "Chetan Bhatt, Liberation and Purity: Race, New Religious Movements and the Ethics of Post-Modernity", Ethnic and racial studies, 21, no. 6, (1998): 1161
- "The 'war' against terrorism/the 'war' for cynical reason" (with Barnor Hesse), Ethnicities, v2 n2 (2002): 149-154.
- "Ancestor worship and the irony of the 'Islamic Republic' of Pakistan" (with I.D. Tyrer), Contemporary South Asia, v11 n1 (2002): 57-75
- "Displacing South Asia", Contemporary South Asia, v12 n4 (2003): 465-469
- "Book Review: Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms", Ethnic and racial studies, 26, Part 4 (2003): 774-776
- "Mirror, mirror : Western democrats, oriental despots?", Ethnicities, v5 n1 (2005): 30-50
- "Rituals, Ideals, and Reading the Qur'an", The American journal of Islamic social sciences. 23, no. 1, (2006): 52-65
- "Islam and Knowledge", Theory, Culture & Society, v23 n2-3 (2006): 177-179
- "After Babel: Dialogue, Difference and Demons", Social Identities, 12, no. 1, (2006): 5-15
- "Racist futures : themes and prospects" (with Ian Law), Ethnic and Racial Studies, v30 n4 (2007): 527-533
- "Islam(ism), Eurocentrism and the World Order", Defence Studies, v7 n3 (2007): 300-316
- "The Homelessness of Muslimness: The Muslim Umma as a Diaspora", Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v8 n2 (2010):129-145
- "Dis-Orienting Clusters of Civility", Third World Quarterly, v32 n5 (2011): 981-987
- "Governing ghosts: Race, incorporeality and difference in post-political times" (with I.D. Tyrer), Current Sociology, 60.3 (2012), 353-367
- "The Dynamics of a Postcolonial War", Defence Studies, 13.3 (2013)
- "A measure of Islamophobia", Islamophobia Studies Journal, 2.1 (2014), 10-25
- "Post-racial paradoxes: rethinking European racism and anti-racism", Patterns of prejudice, 51, no. 1, (2017): 9-25
- "Political Islam in the Aftermath of “Islamic State”", ReOrient, v3 n1 (2017): 65-82
- "Islamophobia and the Europeanness of the other Europe", Patterns of Prejudice, v52 n5 (2018): 420-435
- "The Critique of Religion and Religion as Critique", Politics, Religion & Ideology, v20 n4 (2019): 491-493
Editor
[edit]- A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, 436 p. Co-edited with Nasreen Ali and Virinder S. Kalra.
- Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives, Columbia University Press, 2010, 319 p. Co-edited with Abdoolkarim Vakil.
- Countering Islamophobia in Europe, Springer, 2019, 368 p. Co-edited with Ian Law, Amina Easat-Daas and Arzu Merali.
References
[edit]- ^ "S. Sayyid » Sociology and Social Policy » the University of Leeds". www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
- ^ "ReOrient Editors @ Pluto Journals". www.plutojournals.com. Retrieved 2017-03-23.