Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar
The author recounts his life as a restless believer. Self-mocking, frank and passionate, he describes learning the Koran at his mother's knee, his experiments with various branches of Islam and his travels through the Muslim world to Iran, the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Turkey, North Africa, Pakistan and China.
Ziauddin Sardar was born in Pakistan in 1951 and grew up in Hackney, East London. He has worked all over the world as Muslim and Middle East correspondent for Nature, New Scientist and the Independent as well as making programmes for Channel 4, LWT and the BBC. He has published over 40 books, and contributes to the Observer, New Statesman, Independent, Evening Standard and Daily Mail. He is Visiting Professor of Postcolonial Studies at City University, London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862076501 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862076502 |
| Title | Desperately Seeking Paradise |
| Author | Ziauddin Sardar |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2004-06-24 |
| Number of pages | 356 |
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