Faisal Devji
Professor of Indian history and fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford
Why Is Faisal Devji Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Faisal Devji is a historian who specializes in studies of Islam, globalization, violence and ethics. Early life and education Devji was born in Dar es Salaam in 1964 to a family of western Indian origin. His undergraduate education was at the University of British Columbia, where he received double honors in history and anthropology. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago with his dissertation Muslim Nationalism: Founding Identity in Colonial India and was chosen to be a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Faisal Devji's Published Works
Published Works
- Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005) (133)
- Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (2013) (97)
- The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2008) (79)
- Communities of Violence (2013) (33)
- Hindu/Muslim/Indian (1992) (33)
- Gender and the politics of space: The movement for women's reform in Muslim India, 1857–1900 (1991) (28)
- APOLOGETIC MODERNITY (2007) (21)
- Political thought in action : the Bhagavad Gita and modern India (2013) (19)
- THE BHAGAVAD GITA AND MODERN THOUGHT: INTRODUCTION* (2010) (18)
- The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire (2015) (17)
- The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2011) (17)
- 6 LEAVING INDIA TO ANARCHY (2012) (14)
- MORALITY IN THE SHADOW OF POLITICS (2010) (13)
- Subject to translation: Shakespeare, Swahili, Socialism (2000) (12)
- A shadow nation: The making of Muslim India (2007) (6)
- The terrorist as humanitarian (2009) (6)
- Islam and British Imperial Thought (2014) (5)
- Islam After Liberalism (2017) (5)
- The Paradox of nonviolence (2011) (5)
- Mission Statement Responses (2013) (4)
- Gandhi’s great war (2018) (4)
- India in the Muslim Imagination: Cartography and Landscape in 19th Century Urdu Literature (2014) (4)
- The Language of Muslim Universality (2010) (4)
- The Return of Nonviolence (2021) (3)
- Islamic Reform in South Asia: The Equivocal History of a Muslim Reformation (2013) (3)
- The Mountain Comes to Muhammad: Global Islam in Provincial Europe (2009) (3)
- Guest Editors' Letter: Itineraries of Self-Rule (2011) (3)
- The Childhood of Politics (2021) (3)
- 6. The idea of a Muslim community: British India, 1857-1906 (2012) (2)
- Jinnah and the Theatre of Politics (2018) (2)
- The turn to empire in Asia (2020) (2)
- The Perfect Victim (2020) (2)
- Changing Places: Religion and Minority in Pakistan (2020) (2)
- The Mutiny to Come (2009) (2)
- Mental health in India-bridging the gap. (2021) (2)
- Politics after Al-Qaeda (2014) (2)
- Al-Qaeda, specter of globalization (2007) (1)
- An Elephant in the Room (2019) (1)
- Gender and the Politics of Space: the movement for women's reform, 1857-1900* (2019) (1)
- C. A. Bayly (2017) (1)
- 1. EFFECTS WITHOUT CAUSES (2017) (1)
- Speaking of Violence (2013) (1)
- An Intellectual History for India: Apologetic Modernity (2010) (1)
- An Impossible Founding (2021) (1)
- 11. Torture at the Limit of Politics (2012) (1)
- 5. THE DEATH OF GOD (2017) (0)
- Transnational militancy in the 21st century (2010) (0)
- Indien: Nationalstaat oder Zivilisation? (2016) (0)
- 5 HITLER’S CONVERSION (2012) (0)
- Sleeping Beauty (2020) (0)
- Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: Mission Statement (2013) (0)
- A de-militarised war (2007) (0)
- Made in India: History without the State (2016) (0)
- Gandhi, Hinduism, and Humanity (2020) (0)
- 6 THE SPIRIT OF ISLAM (2013) (0)
- Arabian Knights (2020) (0)
- The Weaponization of Language (2018) (0)
- Political Thought in Action: Morality in the Shadow of Politics (2013) (0)
- Lying with the Enemy: Militant Islam in the Global Arena (2009) (0)
- TRUMP'S TRUTH: a comment on Arjun Appadurai (2020) (0)
- Muslim universality (2011) (0)
- Global War on Terror as De-Militarization (2006) (0)
- 4 THE FANATIC’S REWARD (2013) (0)
- Political Thought in Action: Introduction (2013) (0)
- 3 A PEOPLE WITHOUT HISTORY (2013) (0)
- Losing the Present to History (2022) (0)
- 1 BASTARD HISTORY (2012) (0)
- The TerrorisT as humaniTarian Faisal Devji (2009) (0)
- In the Bellies of Green Birds (2020) (0)
- 2. A DEMOCRATIC HISTORY OF HOLY WAR (2017) (0)
- 8. Red Mosque (2012) (0)
- GWOT (2020) (0)
- Debate: In Response to Charlie (2015) (0)
- Afterword (2022) (0)
- Militant Islam and the West: Blood Brothers (2008) (0)
- 4 BROTHERS IN ARMS (2012) (0)
- A Muslim Militancy Born in Modernity Not Mosques (2006) (0)
- A Minority of One (2021) (0)
- 6. NEW WORLD ORDER (2017) (0)
- Introduction (2001) (0)
- Book Reviews (2006) (0)
- Renouncing Peace (2020) (0)
- Tracking Islam in the archive… (2014) (0)
- 5 TO SET INDIA FREE (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Iqbal Singh Sevea, The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (2016) (0)
- “ While Gandhi ’ s thought can at times seem paradoxical , it had an extraordinary resonance among Indians and indeed many others during his own lifetime ” – Dr (2017) (0)
- 1 ANOTHER COUNTRY (2013) (0)
- 3. MONOTHEISTIC GEOGRAPHIES (2017) (0)
- Roundtable discussion on 'Transnational militancy in the 21st century' (2010) (0)
- Al-Qaeda, spectre of globalisation Faisal Devji (2006) (0)
- 3 IN PRAISE OF PREJUDICE (2012) (0)
- 2 THE PROBLEM WITH NUMBERS (2013) (0)
- Laws of Uncertainty (2020) (0)
- Terrorist in Search of Humanity (2020) (0)
- South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 10 | 2014 (2019) (0)
- CONFLICTS FORUM July 2011 Politics After Al-Qaeda (2011) (0)
- 4. MEDIA AND MARTYRDOM (2017) (0)
- Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915By Nile Green (2012) (0)
- Against Muslim Unity (2021) (0)
- Comments on “The New Jewish Question” (2022) (0)
- Insulting the Prophet (2020) (0)
- Illiberal Islam (2020) (0)
- MUZAFFAR ALAM The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200–1800 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). Pp. 257. $25.00 paper (2006) (0)
- 2 A NATION MISPLACED (2012) (0)
- From bilateralism to Cold War conflict (2014) (0)
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