Faisal Devji

I’m Professor of Indian History at the University of Oxford.

My interest is in the intellectual history of India and Pakistan, as well as in political thought, specifically the political thought of modern Islam.

EXPs by Faisal Devji

Immigration, religion and the return of the British Empire
Faisal Devji
How Islam came to be a global phenomenon
Faisal Devji
Gandhi's leadership, vision of sacrifice and the ends of universalism
Faisal Devji

Publications

Devji F. (2020). Without a Future: Gandhi, Childhood and Politics. E-International Relations.
Devji, F. (2020). The turn to empire in Asia. Inter-Asian Cultural Studies, 21(1), 111-114.
Devji, F., & Kazmi, Z. (2017). Islam after Liberalism. Hurst Publishers.
Devji, F. (2014). Islam and British Imperial Thought. In D. MotadelI (Eds.), Islam and the European Empires (pp. 254–268). Oxford University Press.
Devji, F. (2012). The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the temptation of violence. Harvard University Press.
Devji, F. (2005). Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity. Hurst Publishers.

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The Impossible Indian

Islam After Liberalism

Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea