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. 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. His work has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. He has lived in Australia, the United States, and London.