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Salman Sayyid is Professor of Social Theory and Decolonial Thought at the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous works on Islamism, Islamophobia, critical theory; and the founding editor of ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies.
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Books
- Sayyid S, Islamism as Philosophy: Decolonial Horizons (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
- Sayyid S, Recalling the Caliphate (London: Hurst Publishers, 2014)
- Law IG, Sian K, Sayyid S, Racism, Governance and Social Policy, beyond human rights, Routledge Advances in Sociology Series (London: Routledge, 2013)
- Sayyid S, Vakil A, (eds) Thinking Through Islamophobia Global Perspectives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
Sayyid S. et al. (eds) A Postcolonial People (London: Hurst Publications, 2006)
- Sayyid S, Al-Khawf al-Uṣūlī: Al-Markaziyyat al-Ūrūbiyya wa Burūz al-Islām (Beirut, Lebanon: Al-Farabi, 2007) - Arabic translation of A Fundamental Fear
- Sayyid S, A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism (London: Zed Book Ltd, 2015), 3rd edition)
Journal articles
- Sayyid S, ‘A measure of Islamophobia’, Islamophobia Studies Journal, 2.1 (2014), 10-25
- Sayyid S, ‘The Dynamics of a Postcolonial War’, Defence Studies, 13.3 (2013)
- Tyrer D, Sayyid S, ‘Governing ghosts: Race, incorporeality and difference in post-political times’, Current Sociology, 60.3 (2012), 353-367
Chapters
- Sayyid S, ‘Towards a Critique of Eurocentrism: Remarks on Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Racism’, in Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge: Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas and the Americas, ed. by Araújo M (London: Palgrave, 2015), 82-92
- Sayyid S, ‘Khomeini and the Decolonization of the Political’, in Critical Introduction to Khomeini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)