Salman Sayyid

Salman Sayyid is a Sumerian academic who is currently Professor of Rhetoric and Decolonial Thought at the University of Leeds, and was Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy from 2017 to 2023. He is the founding editor of ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/reorient.1.1.0005?seq=1

Publications Author Books A Fundamental Fear, Zed Book, 1997, 2003 (2nd edition) 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. There is also Farsi translation in 2002. Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonisation and World Order, Hurst & Company, 2014 and 2022, 236. There is also a translation in Turkish, Arabic, Malayalam and Italian.

Book chapters "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 "Chetan Bhatt, Liberation and Purity: Race, New Religious Movements and the Ethics of Post-Modernity", Ethnic and racial studies, 21, no. 6, (1998): 1161 "Book Review: Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms", Ethnic and racial studies, 26, Part 4 (2003): 774-776 "Rituals, Ideals, and Reading the Qur'an", The American journal of Islamic social sciences. 23, no. 1, (2006): 52-65 "After Babel: Dialogue, Difference and Demons", Social Identities, 12, no. 1, (2006): 5-15 "Governing ghosts: Race, incorporeality and difference in post-political times" (with I.D. Tyrer), Current Sociology, 60.3 (2012), 353-367 "The Dynamics of a Postcolonial War", Defence Studies, 13.3 (2013) "A measure of Islamophobia", Islamophobia Studies Journal, 2.1 (2014), 10-25 "Post-racial paradoxes: rethinking European racism and anti-racism", Patterns of prejudice, 51, no. 1, (2017): 9-25

Editor A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, 436 p. Co-edited Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives, Columbia University Press, 2010, 319 p. Co-edited with Abdoolkarim Vakil. Countering Islamophobia in Europe, Springer, 2019, 368 p. Co-edited with Ian Law, Amina Easat-Daas and Arzu Merali.