Faisal Devji, Author . Columbia Univ. $24.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-231-70060-3
Devji (Landscapes of the Jihad
) examines the vitality of militant movements, arguing that in a global society, organizations like al-Qaeda have gathered meaning and strength in an “institutional vacuum.” The author classifies pacifism...
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Faisal Devji. Harvard Univ., $24.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-674-06672-4
This dense, scholarly work addresses Mohandas Gandhi’s political philosophy through a prism that seeks to refigure him as an extraordinary realist whose creed of nonviolence was less idealistic than a means to an end. Devji (The Terrorist in Search...
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Faisal Devji. Harvard Univ., $21.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-674-07267-1
Pakistan and Israel were built on strikingly similar foundations, notes Devji, a scholar of Islamic political theory. Devji utilizes the comparison with Zionism to discuss arguments that “have emerged as the most important and productive ones in the
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