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...Ziauddin Sardar has written extensively on Islam, science (he used to be Middle East correspondent for Nature and the New Scientist), postmodernism, postcolonialism, multiculturalism and the complex reconciliation between Muslim belief and modernity. True to form, his latest book, Balti Britain: A Journey Through the British Asian Experience, is a simmering pot of topics that start off as an investigation into the origins of the dish that began life in the curry restaurants of Birmingham, England. It then moves into a historicized and dizzyingly wide-ranging enquiry into the origins, settlement, assimilation and cultures of the subcontinental diaspora...
...Islam in Britain was simply a function of immigration. But that underestimates the religion's appeal. Since the early 1980s, Bangladeshi and Pakistani imams, often associated with evangelist Islamic groups, have targeted young black inmates of British prisons. "Islam is a sort of natural religion for underdogs," says Ziauddin Sardar, a British scholar of Islam, "and that's one reason why Afro-Caribbean people have found its message very attractive." Prison authorities have allowed imams to bring literature into the jails--everything from copies of the Koran to anti-American leaflets highlighting the importance of jihad. Only since Reid...
...Islam in Britain was simply a function of immigration. But that underestimates the religion's appeal. Since the early 1980s, Bangladeshi and Pakistani imams, often associated with evangelist Islamic groups, have targeted young black inmates of British prisons. "Islam is a sort of natural religion for underdogs," says Ziauddin Sardar, a British scholar of Islam, "and that's one reason why Afro-Caribbean people have found its message very attractive." Prison authorities have allowed imams to bring literature into the jails-everything from copies of the Koran to anti-American leaflets highlighting the importance of jihad. Only since Reid...
...Britain, that view is shared by the writer and critic Ziauddin Sardar, who came to the country with his Pakistani parents as a child in the 1960s. "If there is a sociological change there will be a theological change as well," he says. "In Islam, law and ethics are the same thing. If you change the ethics, you change the law. There will be a new interpretation of Islam...
...collapsed Bank of Credit & Commerce International on criminal charges of fraud and mismanagement in one of the world's largest financial scandals. The three key defendants, though, were convicted in absentia: Agha Hassan Abedi, the B.C.C.I. founder; Mohamed Saleh Naqvi, the empire's former chief executive; and Ziauddin Ali Akbar, the bank's former treasurer. The court also ordered the group of 12 to pay $9.13 billion in restitution to Abu Dhabi's government and ruling family, which held a 77.4% stake in B.C.C.I...