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
Author
Books
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 chaptersThinking through islamophobia: global perspectives, Hurst, 2010, pp. 157-164.
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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