Panoptical Views on Politics : Islamism — Dr. Faisal Devji
VIEW EVENT DETAILSA term that came into prominence during the 1990s, Islamism replaced the more capacious and comparative word fundamentalism. While the latter had named a religious attitude towards texts and doctrines that may or may not have possessed political implications, Islamism took on the role of an ideology just as its Cold War forms were being dismantled. This lecture will attend to the origins and implications of ‘political Islam’ as an ideological category during and after the Cold War.
Dr. Faisal Devji is a Professor of Indian History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Antony’s College. He is Director of the Asian Studies Centre at Oxford and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Devji received his PhD in Intellectual History at the University of Chicago, was Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and has taught at Yale University and the New School for Social Research in New York. He has served as Yves Oltramare Chair at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and is an Institute of Public Knowledge Fellow at New York University. Faisal Devji is the author of four books, Landscapes of the Jihaad (Cornell 2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity (Columbia 2009), The Impossible Indian (Harvard 2012), and Muslim Zion (Harvard 2013).
Dr. Ambreen Agha is Associate Professor & Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs (Undergraduate Programs), O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed To Be University). Before joining the University, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi. At the Council, she was engaged in research on religion and conflict, particularly conflict in Afghanistan. She received her Ph.D. from Centre for Political Studies (CPS), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. In her Ph.D she worked on the larger theme of gender and Islam with emphasis on female participation in Islamic revivalist movements.