Faisal Devji: 4 books

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 Landscapes of the Jihad, Faisal Devji focuses on the ethical content of this jihad as opposed to its purported...

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 only Muslim state to make religion the sole basis of its nationality. Faisal Devji offers a penetrating critique of founding a state on nothing but the idea of belonging.

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. Guided by his idea of ethical duty as the source of the self’s sovereignty, he understood how life’s quotidian reality could be revolutionized to extraordinary effect.

Es ist noch nicht so lange her, dass die Säkularisierung als unvermeidliche Begleiterscheinung der Modernisierung galt. Säkularisierung wurde als Fortschritt wahrgenommen, der die Religion nach und nach durch rationale Vernunft ersetzt. Nun scheint es an der Zeit, den Säkularismus neu zu denken. Bilden...