Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (Hardback)

'...provocative but compelling ... a convincing example of intellectual history writing.' - History Today 'No one but Faisal Devji could have given us Muslim Zion, which offers a brilliant, counterintuitive meditation on the analogy between ideologies of Zionism and Pakistani/Muslim nationalism, and at the same time a nuanced historical exploration of the idea of Pakistan. Intellectual history as a page-turner.' * Noah Feldman, author of Cool War: The Future of Global Competition *
'A fascinating, thoughtful, and provocative work, Muslim Zion explores the paradoxical dimensions of Pakistan by focusing on the period when this country was imagined, but yet unrealized.' * Christophe Jaffrelot, CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS *
'Devji is arguably the most brilliant scholar of his generation writing today on South Asian history and global Islam. His explorations of the tensions inherent in the idea of Pakistan as a Muslim homeland, and the fascinating parallels he draws with Zionist and settler-colonial pasts, provide a new point of departure for the study of both Muslim and Dalit politics in British India. And his reflections on the failure of the category "minority" in decolonizing times will help us rethink the very idea of the political in the twentieth century. A thoughtful and courageous book.' * Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago *
'Faisal Devji's brilliantly written, deeply felt book is an important contribution to the study of the tortured relationship between different ideas of Pakistan and of Islam.' * Anatol Lieven, author of Pakistan: A Hard Country *