Faisal Devji

Dr. Faisal Devji

Professor of Indian History, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

e-mail: faisal.devji@sant.ox.ac.uk

Some recent publications

Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea. Harvard University Press.

The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence. Harvard University Press.

Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics. Oxford University Press.

Texts to download

“Changing Places: Religion and Minority in Pakistan”. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

“Secular Islam”. Political Theology.

“Politics After Al-Qaeda”. Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 40, No. 4-5, pp. 431–438.

“Politics Without Paternity”. Seminar 662, pp. 18-24.

“Jinnah and the Theatre of Politics”. Asiatische Studien, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 1179-1204.

“The Language of Muslim Universality”. Diogenes, No. 226, pp. 35-49.

“Morality in the Shadow of Politics”. Modern Intellectual History, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 373-390.

“The Mutiny to Come”. New Literary History, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 411-430.

“The Terrorist as Humanitarian”. Social Analysis, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 173-192.

“Militant Islam and the West”. Theworldtoday.org, pp. 25-27.

“Apologetic Modernity”. Modern Intellectual History, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 61-76.

“Dubai Cosmopolis”. Open Democracy.

“Subject to Translation: Shakespeare, Swahili, Socialism”. Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 181-189.

“Hindu/Muslim/Indian”. Public Culture: Society for Transnational Cultural Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-18.

“Gender and the Politics of Space: The Movement for Women’s Reform in Muslim India, 1857–1900”. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 141-153.