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{{Infobox person
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| birth_date = 1970
| birth_place = [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
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| alma_mater = [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College]]
| occupation = Author, critic, journalist, social commentator
| years_active = 1995–present
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'''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 (magazine)|Frontline]]'', he also wrote several columns on sociocultural issues and book reviews for the magazine.{{sfn|Salam|Parvaiz|2020|p=179}}<ref name="video" />

Born in [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|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, Delhi|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 (India)|The Pioneer]]'', ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'' and ''[[The Times of India]]''.

==Biography==
Salam was born in [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]] in 1970. His father, Mufti Abdul Dayem Sahab, an Islamic scholar, had written several scholarly works on [[Islamic studies|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, Delhi|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."<ref name="video">{{cite AV media |last=Ahad |first=Rehan |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yILthr-GUYc&ab_channel=TawarikhKhwani |title=An Explorative Talk with Mr. Ziya Us Salam |date=19 April 2019 |time=1:30–14:02 |publisher=Tawarikh Khwani |access-date=19 March 2021 }}</ref>

Throughout his career, Salam has worked as a journalist for newspapers ''[[The Hindu]]'', where he writes articles for its [[North India]] edition, ''[[The Pioneer (India)|The Pioneer]]'', ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'' and ''[[The Times of India]]''. He served as an associate editor for magazine ''[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]'' of [[The Hindu Group]] as well since 2000.<ref name="video" /> He published his first book on [[Islam]], titled ''Till Talaq Do Us Part: Understanding Talaq, Triple Talaq and Khula'', which discusses about [[Marriage in Islam|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."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/reviews/micro-review-till-talaq-do-us-part-is-a-powerful-read-aimed-to-shatter-misconceptions-over-triple-talaq/articleshow/65963461.cms |title=Micro review: 'Till Talaq Do Us Part' is a powerful read aimed to shatter misconceptions over Triple Talaq |work=[[The Times of India]] |publisher=Times News Network |date=27 September 2018 |access-date=19 March 2021 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109015228/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/reviews/micro-review-till-talaq-do-us-part-is-a-powerful-read-aimed-to-shatter-misconceptions-over-triple-talaq/articleshow/65963461.cms |url-status=live }}</ref> 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 [[Islam in India|Muslims in India]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scroll.in/article/884792/i-am-the-other-have-indias-muslims-been-systematically-pushed-out-of-the-mainstream |title='I am the other': Have India's Muslims been systematically pushed out of the mainstream? |last=Salam |first=Ziya Us |date=3 July 2018 |website=[[Scroll.in]] |access-date=19 March 2021 |archive-date=18 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118011958/https://scroll.in/article/884792/i-am-the-other-have-indias-muslims-been-systematically-pushed-out-of-the-mainstream |url-status=live }}</ref> Writing for ''Frontline'', the Professor of [[Aligarh Muslim University]] Mohammad Sajjad observed of how Salam "rightly concludes his book on an optimistic note".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/article24807783.ece |title=Of identity & hope |last=Sajjad |first=Mohammad |date=14 September 2018 |work=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] |access-date=19 March 2021 |archive-date=17 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117195446/https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/article24807783.ece |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |title=Women in Masjid: A Quest for Justice |date=18 October 2019 |last=Salam |first=Ziya Us |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |isbn=978-93-88912-03-7 }}
* {{cite book |title=Madrasas in the Age of Islamophobia |date=12 February 2020 |last1=Salam |first1=Ziya Us |last2=Parvaiz |first2=Mohammad Aslam |publisher=[[SAGE Publications]] |isbn=978-93-53289-31-7 }}
* {{cite book |title=Nikah Halala: Sleeping with a Stranger |date=18 July 2020 |last=Salam |first=Ziya Us |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-93-89611-49-6}}
* {{cite book |title=Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement |date=30 August 2020 |last=Salam |first=Ziya Us |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-93-90077-94-6 }}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Twitter|id=ziyaussalam}}

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