Ziauddin (Zia) Sardar is an Islamic polymath and who also edited the field’s flagship journal ‘Futures’. His scholarship into Muslim Futures brought him into the community and he stayed. His latest foray is into postnormal times which Zia believes is the zeitgeist of our era. He is a driving force behind the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Future Studies. Zia explains the 3Cs of postnormal times; Complexity, Chaos and Contradictions, and also introduces some of its menagerie; the Black Elephants, Jellyfish amd Swans.