A01=Faisal Devji
Author_Faisal Devji
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Category=JPWL
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- ISBN 9781850659464
- Dimensions: 145 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2008
- Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 as environmentalism and pacifism. To the militant, victimized Muslims are more than just symbols of ethnic and religious persecution-they represent humanity's centuries-long struggle for legitimacy and agency. Acts of terror, therefore, are fueled by the militant's desire to become a historical actor on the global stage. Though they have yet to build concrete political institutions, militant movements have formed a kind of global society, and as Devji makes clear, this society pursues the same humanitarian objectives that drive more benevolent groups.
Faisal Devji is Assistant Professor of History at New School University, New York. His first book, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity, was published to wide acclaim in 2005, garnering reviews in, inter alia, The Economist, The New York Review of Books, The New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.
