Can Muslims reform Islam? Can Islam be disentangled from Islamism as a political ideology? Who are the leaders of change in Islam? Ziauddin Sardar set out to answer these and other questions in his film, Battle for Islam, which was aired on BBC 1 TV on Monday 5 September.

I went to a screening yesterday evening at Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs), of which I am a member. Sardar was there to answer questions, as was Paul Jenkins, the producer. We saw the full 90 minute version of the film, which I found quite fascinating. Sardar deliberately went to what he described last night as the fringes of the Islamic world - countries such as Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Turkey - as opposed to the Middle East heartlands of Islam.

Whom did he interview?

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