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'''Faisal Devji''' is a historian who specializes in studies of [[Islam]], [[globalization]], [[violence]] and [[ethics]].<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Devji was born in [[Dar es Salaam]] in 1964 to a family of western [[India]]n origin. His undergraduate education was at the [[University of British Columbia]], where he received double honors in history and anthropology. He received his PhD from the [[University of Chicago]] with his dissertation ''Muslim Nationalism: Founding Identity in Colonial India'' and was chosen to be a Junior Fellow at the [[Harvard Society of Fellows]].<br />
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Devji is [[Zanzibari]], and is now a [[Canadians|Canadian]] citizen.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Devji's multidisciplinary work grounds empirical historical issues in philosophical questions. He has taught at [[The New School]] in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The ideas interview: Faisal Devji|publisher=The Guardian|date=May 9, 2006|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/17/alqaida.academicexperts}}</ref> He has taught at [[Yale University]].<br />
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In 2005, [[Cornell University Press]] published his ''Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity'', exploring the ethical content of jihad as opposed to its more widely studied purported political content. The book draws a distinction between the majority of [[Islamic fundamentalist]] organizations concerned with the establishing of states and [[al-Qaeda]] with its decentralized structure and emphasis on moral rather than political action. His next book was ''The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics'', published by [[Columbia University Press]] in October 2008.<br />
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Since 2009, Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History, Oxford University. He also is a senior fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge (New York University)<ref name="ox.ac.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/devji.html|title=People - St Antony's College|website=www.sant.ox.ac.uk|accessdate=15 August 2017}}</ref> and Yves Oltramar Chair at the [[Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies]] in Geneva.<ref name="ox.ac.uk"/><br />
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He published ''The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptations of Violence'', by Hurst & Co. in March 2011.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080219064718/http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=1686 Faisal Devji's homepage] at the New School<br />
*[http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Faisal_Devji.jsp Online essays by Faisal Devji] at [[openDemocracy.net]]<br />
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