Contents -- Introduction: The Other Futurist -- I Islam -- 1. Rethinking Islam -- 2. Reconstructing Muslim Civilisation -- 3. Permanence and Change in Islam -- 4. The Shari'ah as a Problem-Solving Methodology -- 5. Islam and Nationalism -- 6. Paper, Printing and Compact Discs: The Making and Unmaking of Islamic Culture -- 7. Reformist Ideas and Muslim Intellectuals: The Demands of the Real World -- II Postmodernism -- 8. When the Pendulum Comes to Rest -- 9. Walt Disney and the Double Victimisation of Pocahontas -- 10. The Ethical Connection: Christian Muslim Relations in the Postmodern Age -- 11. Total Recall: Aliens, Others and Amnesia in Postmodern Thought -- 12. Bosnia and the Postmodern Embrace of Evil -- 13. Postmodern(ising) Qawwali -- 14. The End of Civilisation? -- III Other Futures -- 15. The Problem of Futures Studies -- 16. Asian Cultures: Between Programmed and Desired Futures -- 17. Other Futures: Non-Western Cultures in Futures Studies -- 18. Healing the Multiple Wounds: Medicine in a Multicultural Society -- 19. Beyond Development: An Islamic Perspective -- 20. What Chaos? What Coherence? Across the River I Called -- Ziauddin Sardar: A Working Bibliography -- Index.