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S. Sayyid is currently Professor of Rhetoric and Decolonial Thought at the University of Leeds, and Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy.[1] He pioneered Critical Muslim Studies. He is the author of numerous works on political theory and its interface with the post-Western: Islamism, Islamophobia, decolonial thought, and the founding editor of ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies.[2] His work has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. He has worked in Australia, the United States, and London.
A Fundamental Fear, Zed Book, 1997, 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.
Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonisation and World Order, Hurst & Company, 2014, 236. There is also a translation in Turkish, Arabic and Italian. Racism, Governance, and Public Policy: Beyond Human Rights, Routledge, 2013, 156 p. Co-edited with Katy Sian and Ian Law.
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
"Book Review: The Gulf Crisis: An Attempt to Understand", International Affairs, v69 n3 (1993): 611
"Book Review: The making of modern Turkey", International Affairs, v70 n1 (1994): 176-177
"Anti‐essentialism and universalism", Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, v11 n4 (1998): 377-389
"Chetan Bhatt, Liberation and Purity: Race, New Religious Movements and the Ethics of Post-Modernity", Ethnic and racial studies, 21, no. 6, (1998): 1161
"The 'war' against terrorism/the 'war' for cynical reason" (with Barnor Hesse), Ethnicities, v2 n2 (2002): 149-154.
"Ancestor worship and the irony of the 'Islamic Republic' of Pakistan" (with I.D. Tyrer), Contemporary South Asia, v11 n1 (2002): 57-75
"Displacing South Asia", Contemporary South Asia, v12 n4 (2003): 465-469
"Book Review: Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms", Ethnic and racial studies, 26, Part 4 (2003): 774-776