S Sayyid

University of Leeds, Sociology and Social Policy, Faculty Member

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A Fundmental Fear

A Postcolonial People

"A Postcolonial People" is a lively, critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fil... more "A Postcolonial People" is a lively, critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fills a conspicuous gap in the literature. This specially commissioned book combines conceptually innovative analysis with empirically rich studies to map out the diversity of the British Asian way of life. The migration and settlement of South Asians in large numbers in Britain is examined in the context of the postcolonial condition, in which boundaries between the West and Rest, centre and periphery, home and abroad are increasingly blurred. The contributors provide both fresh insights and vital information on the Asian British experience in its socio-economic, historical and cultural dimensions. The topics covered include: identity, the transformation of urban space, policing, healthcare, electoral politics, music, British Asian theatre and cinema.

Thinking Through Islamophobia

Use of the term Islamophobia is today both inexorable and controversial. Thinking Through Islamop... more Use of the term Islamophobia is today both inexorable and controversial. Thinking Through Islamophobia offers a series of critical engagements with the concept, its history and deployment, and the phenomena that it seeks to marshal. In an original and pioneering collection of essays twenty-eight contributors hailing from diverse disciplinary and geographical backgrounds draw on their expertise to map out the tensions between the concept and the phenomena as they are played out across different contexts and continents. Extending the discussion of Islamophobia beyond its commonplace focus on the West and staking a claim for the continuing relevance and critical purchase of Islamophobia in struggles for justice, Thinking Through Islamophobia locates the polemical debates on Islamophobia within wider cultural and political mobilizations engendered by the 'Muslim question'.

Recalling the Caliphate

Racism, Governance, and Public Policy: Beyond Human Rights

Islamism as Philosophy: Decolonial Horizons

The Muslim question continues to vex the world. The answers to this question come in many forms: ... more The Muslim question continues to vex the world. The answers to this question come in many forms: public policy, academic analysis as well as sensationalist headlines. This book presents a philosophical take on the Muslim question. In doing so, it explores some of the philosophical assumptions that frame the way in which the rise of Muslim political identity throughout the planet presents challenges which are not only cultural and geopolitical but also conceptual. In a series of reflections, Islamism as Philosophy teases out some of the complexities of the emergence of Muslim political identities, complexities which are often covered up by the latest screaming headline. This book argues that a world in which a quarter of the population seems increasingly conscious of its "Musliminess" cannot be peaceful or harmonious or just without careful attention being paid to the Muslim question. Islamism as Philosophy's opening gambit is that increasing consciousness of the Muslim is neither superficial nor transitory and as such requires rigorous and serious consideration.If the Muslim Awakening is a wave of world historical import akin to the emergence of nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth century, then the choices that present themselves are either to try and roll back the tide or learn to surf.

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Islamophobia and the Europeaness of the Other Europe

Patterns of Prejudice, 2018

This article explores the relationship between the emergence of Islamophobia and the crisis of E... more This article explores the relationship between the emergence of Islamophobia and the crisis of Europeanness. What is it about Europeanness right now that makes one of its most vocal expressions an insistence on the Muslim question? To answer, or perhaps address, the question of why the Muslim question and why now, Sayyid places the formation of European identity in a postcolonial context. That is, the horizon opened by the decentring of the West not only geopolitically or economically but also culturally and philosophically is explored. East Central Europe in its various permutations—historical and cultural—provides an excellent platform to study the impact of the postcolonial on Europeanness. The East Central European experience of the postcolonial is inﬂected through a history of imperial articulations and peripheralizations that demonstrate not only the contingency of the idea of Europeanness but also its imbrication with the Orient.

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