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Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea Faisal Devji
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Apr 22, 2014 - Implicit in the demand was the idea that the Muslim federation would either be an autonomous part of an overall Indian union or would have treaty relations that would preserve Indian unity while resolving the demand of Muslim majority provinces for As a result Devji's contention that the Islamists, who had logically opposed the creation of Pakistan, constitute a more faithful expression of the national project of Muslim Zion, is both historically and politically untenable. Feb 24, 2014 - Devji is director of the Asian Studies Center at the University of Oxford. Dec 19, 2013 - Faisal Devji's latest book 'Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a political idea' offers a fresh perspective to the Pakistan movement by linking it to the creation of Israel. Aug 22, 2013 - 07 48 PM ISTWhat are the consequences of creating a nation on nothing but an idea? Is pivoted around a critical historical conjuncture where the domestic politics of the subcontinent got entangled with international events, namely the recurring quest towards the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, also waged on similar grounds – resting on an idea. Modernity (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2008), The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2012) and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (2013). Jul 15, 2013 - Muslim Zion Pakistan as a Political Idea (Faisal Devji, Hurst 2013, August 30,2013). Jan 3, 2014 - Muslim Zion - Faisal Devji The Promise of Power - Maya Tudor The creation of Pakistan and India through the severing of the subcontinent was one of the most bloody incidents in 20th century history. He is the author, most recently, of Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (Harvard University Press, 2013). Faisal Devji is a Reader in History at St. An idea bereft of territorial kinship, links to blood, soil and history. Militant Islam and Global Politics (Hurst, 2009), The Impossible India: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (Harvard University Press, 2012) and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (Harvard University Press, 2013). May 25, 2014 - But the thesis is actually well thought out and merits an honest response. Antony's College, Oxford University. Sikander is LLF's Artist of the Year.