Ziauddin Sardar is a London-based Muslim scholar, critic, futurist, journalist and a prolific 

writer.Considered a pioneering thinker on contemporary Islam, Prospect magazine has named him as

one of Britain's top 100 public intellectuals while he has been described by the Independent newspaper

as ‘Britain’s own Muslim polymath.' His intellectual output, published in some 45 books, ranges from the

of Islam to critiques of postmodernism, science policy, contemporary aspects of science in Muslim

societies, colonialism, cultural relations, literary criticism, travel and autobiography. He was worked as a

science correspondent for Nature and New Scientist and in the early 1980’s he became a television

reporter for the London Weekend Television. He has made numerous television programmes, including

Battle for Islam, a 90-minute documentary for BBC2 and Dispatches for Channel 4 on Pakistan. In

1999, he became the editor of Futures, the monthly journal of policy, planning and future studies. He

co-edited edited Third Text, the critical journal of visual art and culture, from to 1999 to 2008. In 2006

he was appointed a Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission of Britain.