Devji Faisal
Faisal Devji
Position:
Reader in Modern South Asian History
Appointed:
2009
College:
St Antony's
Office Details:
2 Church Walk
Research Awards:
Institute for Public Knowledge Scholar, New York University Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, May-September 2009
Publications:
Muslim Zion: Jinnah and the Making of Pakistan, work in progress under contract to Hurst and Co. and scheduled to appear in 2010
The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics, Hurst and Co. and Columbia University Press, 2008
Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity, Hurst and Co. and Cornell University Press, 2005
Spanish translation by Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona, 2007
Articles
“Preface”, in Marc Van Grondelle, The Ismailis in the Colonial Era: Modernity, Empire and Islam, 1839-1969, Hurst and Co., 2009
“The Terrorist as Humanitarian”, Social Analysis, vol. 53, issue 1, Spring 2009
“The Mountain Comes to Muhammad: Global Islam in Provincial Europe”, in Chris Rumford (ed.), The Sage Handbook of European Studies, 2009
“The Human Factor”, Third Frame, vol. 2, no. 2, April-June 2009
“Illiberal Islam”, in Saurabh Dube (ed.), Enchantments of Modernity, Routledge, 2009
Review of J. Majeed, Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity: Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal, in The Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 45, no. 4, 2008
“The ‘Arab’ in Global Militancy”, in Madawi al-Rasheed (ed.), Kingdom Without Borders: Saudi Expansion in the World, Hurst and Co., 2008
“Red Mosque”, Public Culture, vol. 20 no. 1, winter 2008
“A Demilitarised War”, Soundings, issue 36, “Politics and Markets”, summer 2007
“The Minority as Political Form”, in Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar and Andrew Sartori (eds.), From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: South Asia in Transition, Oxford University Press, 2007
“Apologetic Modernity”, Modern Intellectual History, vol. 4, no. 1, April 2007
“Comments on Rajeev Bhargava’s ‘The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism’”, in T.N. Srinivasan (ed.), The Future of Secularism, Oxford University Press, 2007
“A Shadow Nation: The Making of Muslim India”, in Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann (eds.), Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, 1860-1950, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Review of D. Reetz, Islam in the Public Sphere and Y. Sikand, The Origins and Development of the Tablighi Jamaat, in The Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 44, no. 4, 2007
“Global War on Terror as De-Militarization”, ISIM Review, issue 18, autumn 2006
Reprinted in Current, no. 493, June 2007
