Ziauddin Sardar, former Professor of Law and Society, Middlesex University, and Visiting Professor of Postcolonial Studies, City University, London, is an internationally renowned writer, futurist, cultural critic and public intellectual. A former Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and columnist on the New Statesman, he has published over sixty books. Currently, he is the Director of Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies, a Trustee of the Muslim Institute, and the editor of the influential quarterly Critical Muslim.