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Faisal Devji is a historian who specializes in studies of Islam, globalization, violence and ethics. His multidisciplinary work grounds empirical historical issues in philosophical questions. He has taught at The New School in New York City. Since 2009, Devji is Reader in Modern South Asian History, Oxford University. He also is a senior fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge (New York University).

Now a Canadian citizen, Devji is Zanzibari, having been born in Dar es Salaam in 1964 to a family of Indian ethnicity. 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. He has taught at Yale University and also served as Head of Graduate Studies at The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. He knows English, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Kutchi, Khojki, Swahili, Persian, Sindhi and Urdu.

In 2005, Cornell University Press published his Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity, exploring the ethical content of jihad as opposed to its more widely-studied purported political content. The book draws a distinction between the majority of Islamic fundamentalist organizations concerned with the establishing of states and al-Qaeda with its decentralized structure and emphasis on moral rather than political action. His next book was The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics, published by Columbia University Press in October 2008. Devji is also a regular contributor to the scholarly journal Public Culture and serves on its Editorial Committee.
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Total Books: 9
Muslim Zion Pakistan as a Political Idea
The Impossible Indian Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence
Terrorist in Search of Humanity Militant Islam and Global Politics
The Terrorist in Search of Humanity Militant Islam and Global Politics
Landscapes of the Jihad Militancy Morality Modernity
2005 - Landscapes of the Jihad Militancy Morality Modernity (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780801444371
ISBN-10: 0801444373
Genres: History, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
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Landscapes of the Jihad
2005 - Landscapes of the Jihad (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781850657750
ISBN-10: 1850657750
Genre: Nonfiction
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Bomb
2000 - Bomb (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781887123327
ISBN-10: 1887123326
Genres: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction
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Shahzia Sikander
1999 - Shahzia Sikander (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780941548427
ISBN-10: 0941548422
Genre: Arts & Photography
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The Impossible Indian Gandhi and the Temptations of Violence Faisal Devji