How Do You Know?
Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations

Brings together the selected writings of Zia Sardar in one volume -- an ideal introduction to his thinking.

Baltimore Sun "Packed with tightly argued points." Times Higher Education Supplement Praise for Desperately Seeking Paradise: "Bounds forth with extraordinary energy and lightness, propelled at all stages by a passion for knowledge and inquiry." New Statesman "At once earnest and humorous, light-hearted and profound, this is a book that displays a sustained capacity for self-questioning of a kind that has few parallels in the liberal West." Independent

I Introduction: The diaspora intellectual
Ehsan Masood
II Islam
1 Jihad for peace
2 Re-reading the life of Muhammad
3 Faith and the written word
4 Rescuing Islam's universities
5 What do we mean by Islamic futures?
III Science and knowledge
6 Guardians of the Planet: Muslims and the environment
7 Muslims and philosophy of science
8 Dewey departs: ideas on classifying knowledge
9 Arguments for an Islamic science
10 Islamic science: the way ahead
IV Cultural relations
11 South Asia: fifty years on
12 Coming home: sex, lies and the 'I' in India
13 The A, B, C, D (and E) of Ashis Nandy
14 God bless America!
15 Managing diversity: identity and rights in multicultural Europe
16 Beyond difference: cultural relations in a new century
Index
Bibliography.