Ziya Us Salam

Ziya Us Salam (born 1970) is an Indian author, literary critic, journalist and social commentator, who has worked for The Hindu Group since 2000. In addition to serving as the associate editor for magazine Frontline, he also wrote several columns on sociocultural issues and book reviews for the magazine.^[1][2]

Born in Rampur, his father was Islamic scholar Mufti Abdul Dayem Sahab (died 1983) while his mother is a housewife. Following his study at St. Stephen's College, he decided to work as a journalist in 1995. Since this, he has worked for several newspaper, including The Hindu, The Pioneer, The Statesman and The Times of India.

Biography[]

Salam was born in Rampur in 1970. His father, Mufti Abdul Dayem Sahab, an Islamic scholar, had written several scholarly works on Islamic sciences in Urdu and Arabic and also worked as a hadith translator, while his mother is a housewife. Salam has a sister, who works a doctor. He and his family later moved to Delhi. He started his formal education at the Bluebells School International until the tenth grade and later at a convent school. Sahab died on 5 September 1983, when he was thirteen, and was buried at a cemetery at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg. Salam got a bachelor's degree after finished his study at St. Stephen's College. Following this, he started his career as a journalist in 1995. Recalling his childhood, he said: "When I was in grade V, I used to scribe the handwritten notes from different columns of the newspapers. After compilation, I used to distribute the Photostat copies of my notes among the friends in my colony at Lajpatnagar. I was in grade VII when first of my article was published."^[2]

Throughout his career, Salam has worked as a journalist for newspapers The Hindu, where he writes articles for its North India edition, The Pioneer, The Statesman and The Times of India. He served as an associate editor for magazine Frontline of The Hindu Group as well since 2000.^[2] He published his first book on Islam, titled Till Talaq Do Us Part: Understanding Talaq, Triple Talaq and Khula, which discusses about marriage in the religion, on 12 April 2018. The Wire wrote, "This slim, lucid volume is a timely intervention which will hopefully succeed in its objective of clearing many misconceptions about the issue that has seen wide disjunction between the scriptures and practice."^[3] He published another book about it, Of Saffron Flags and Skullcaps: Hindutva, Muslim Identity and the Idea of India, on 21 May. With a foreword by Nirmala Lakshman (the director of The Hindu Group), the book discussed about discrimination against Muslims in India.^[4] Writing for Frontline, the Professor of Aligarh Muslim University Mohammad Sajjad observed of how Salam "rightly concludes his book on an optimistic note".^[5]

Bibliography[]

• Salam, Ziya Us (18 October 2019). Women in Masjid: A Quest for Justice. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-93-88912-03-7.
• Salam, Ziya Us; Parvaiz, Mohammad Aslam (12 February 2020). Madrasas in the Age of Islamophobia. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-93-53289-31-7.
• Salam, Ziya Us (18 July 2020). Nikah Halala: Sleeping with a Stranger. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-93-89611-49-6.
• Salam, Ziya Us (30 August 2020). Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-93-90077-94-6.

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External links[]

• Ziya Us Salam on Twitter