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      The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence

      Faisal Devji

      This is a rare view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursuit of a global vision that went beyond a nationalist agenda…

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      The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics

      Faisal Devji

      Argues that various forms of militancy, such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by the same desire for agency and equality that animates other humanitarian interventions, such as environmentalism…

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      Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity

      Faisal Devji

      Landscapes of the Jihad explores the features that Al-Qaeda and other strands of militant Islam share in common with global movements.

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      Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea

      Faisal Devji

      Muslim Zion argues that Pakistan has never been a nation-state, grounded in the historic connections of lands and peoples. Just as Israel is the only Jewish state, Pakistan is the…

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      Islam After Liberalism

      Leading scholars discuss how 'Islam' and 'liberalism' have been entwined historically and politically and how Muslims have thought about this longstanding relationship.

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      Perilous Intimacies

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      SherAli Tareen explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

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      Perilous Intimacies

      SherAli Tareen

      SherAli Tareen explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

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      Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics

      Dr Faisal Devji (Corpus Christi College Cambridge)

      Faisal Devji argues that new forms of militancy, such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by the same desire for agency and equality that animates other humanitarian interventions, such…

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      Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics

      Dr Faisal Devji (Corpus Christi College Cambridge)

      Argues that various forms of militancy, such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by the same desire for agency and equality that animates other humanitarian interventions, such as environmentalism…

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      Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity

      Faisal Devji (St. Antony's College, Oxford University St Antony's College, Oxford St Antony's College, Oxford St Antony's College, Oxford)

      What are the motives behind Osama bin Laden’s and Al-Qaeda’s jihad against America and the West? Innumerable attempts have been made in recent years to explain that mysterious worldview. In…

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      Poetry of the Taliban

      This is the first collection in English of poetry inspired by and inspiring the Taliban. Most Taliban fighters are Pashtuns, a people who cherish their poetic tradition, and poetry is…

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      Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands

      Western media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan paints a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks…

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