Faisal Devji

Professor of Indian History, History Faculty, University of Oxford

Faisal Devji is professor of Indian history and fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, where he is also the director of the Asian Studies Centre. His latest book is Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (2013).

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Written by Faisal Devji

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essayPolitical philosophy

What is ‘the West’?

While the West belonged to a European geography, its name meant something. Now it is a vague invocation, laden with fear

Faisal Devji

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essayPolitics and government

Age of sincerity

In politics, as in militant religion, the performance of sincerity is everything, no matter whether right or wrong

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essayReligion

Against Muslim unity

Even the pilgrimage to Mecca exposes the myth of a united Islam and the formative power of the wider world

Faisal Devji