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Faisal Devji, "Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam" (Yale UP, 2025)

Faisal Devji's Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Yale UP, 2025) is a compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor. Until the nineteenth century, Islam was variously understood as a set of beliefs and practices. But after Muslims began to see their faith…

Faisal Devji, "Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam" (Yale UP, 2025)

Faisal Devji's Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Yale UP, 2025) is a compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor. Until the nineteenth century, Islam was variously understood as a set of beliefs and practices. But after Muslims began to see their faith…

Are we on the verge of civilization’s collapse or rebirth?

The prospect of societal collapse has been examined throughout human history. Thinkers from Ibn Khaldun to Karl Marx have argued that civilization carries the seeds of its own downfall.   This episode asks whether we are witnessing modern-day civilization’s collapse or renewal. Will our modern-day…

Faisal Devji on the crisis of 'global Islam' in Turkey and elsewhere

Faisal Devji on “Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam” (Yale University Press). The book argues that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Islam in countries including Turkey transformed into a modern ideological system like capitalism or communism, but this process has now reach…

Are civilisations destined to fail?

What is the fate of civilisations? In this episode of @DohaDebates podcast, host Soraya Salam explores whether the collapse of civilisations is inevitable or whether they ultimately reinvent themselves. Joined by Payal Arora, Jonathan A.C. Brown, Joseph Tainter and Faisal Devji, the discussion ex…

Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

Professor Faisal Devji (Balliol College) discusses his new book 'Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam'. Chaired by Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony’s College). About the Book: A compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor. Until the nineteenth century,…

Forever wars

The historian Faisal Devji traces the root causes of the endless wars in Western Asia. From Palestine to Tehran, borders crumble and a deficit of sovereignty in the Arab world is destabilising the world economy and reshaping its map.

Interview with Faisal Devji: Islam as an actor, an agent, a protagonist in history is dying.

This week I come to you in podcast form as I promised earlier. I interviewed Faisal Devji, a top historian and a public intellectual. He is the Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History at Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. He is the author of some of the most original books written on Mus…

Episode 90 - How colonialism redefined "Islam" and how Muslims are moving beyond it | Faisal Devji | UNAPOLOGETIC

In the latest episode of UNAPOLOGETIC we sat down with Faisal Devji in Oxford. Devji is a widely acclaimed scholar of both South Asian history and the history of intellectual thought. In his latest book, Devji presents a novel idea: that "Islam", as many of us commonly use the word today, meaning a…