Recalling the Caliphate: Preface to Arabic Edition By S.Sayyid

Recalling the Caliphate: Preface to Arabic Edition By S.Sayyid

Recalling the Caliphate: Preface to Arabic Edition By S.Sayyid Comments by S. Sayyid i Blog 22   Recalling the Caliphate is not a history or a think tank report or a manifesto, it is a decolonial investigation into the way in which the appearance of a Muslim...
Reports of Islamophobia: 1997 and 2017

Reports of Islamophobia: 1997 and 2017

Reports of Islamophobia: 1997 and 2017 Comments by S. Sayyid & AbdoolKarim Vakil i Blog 18   The Road Travelled Earlier this month the Runnymede Trust launched a new report, Islamophobia: Still a challenge for us all, to mark the 20th anniversary of the publication...
The Meaning of Pakistan

The Meaning of Pakistan

The Meaning of Pakistan Comments by S. Sayyid i Blog 14   Richard Bulliet observes that without the Islamic Revolution, Iran would be a very similar country to Pakistan. That is, Iran would be a country dominated by an elite that is globally integrated,...
Decoloniality and the Islamicate [1]

Decoloniality and the Islamicate [1]

Decoloniality and the Islamicate [1] Comments by S. Sayyid i Blog 9   Recalling the Caliphate was published in English towards the end of 2014. A few months before its publication, a caliphate had been proclaimed in the borderlands of what had been two Baathist...