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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: terrorist in search of humanity
    sub title: militant Islam and global politics
  name:
    name part: Devji, Faisal
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 229 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Author of the critically acclaimed Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity, Faisal Devji argues that new forms of militancy, such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by the same desire for agency and equality animating humanitarian interventions, such as environmentalism and pacifism. To the militant, victimised Muslims are more than just symbols of ethnic and religious persecution. They represent humanity's centuries-long struggle for legitimacy and agency. In this way Islam is defined more in humanitarian than theological terms. Acts of terror, therefore, are fuelled by the militant's desire for humanity to become an historical actor on the global stage. Though they have yet to build concrete political institutions, militant movements have formed a kind of global society, and as Devji makes clear, this society pursues the same humanitarian objectives that drive more benevolent groups.
  table of contents: Sleeping beauty -- The perfect victim -- Laws of uncertainty -- Arabian knights -- GWOT -- Insulting the prophet -- In the bellies of green birds.
  note: Faisal Devji.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Qaida (Organization)
  subject:
    topic: Islam and politics
  subject:
    topic: Terrorists
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Islam
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  classification: DS35.69 .D48 2019
  classification: 303.4821767
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Crises in world politics
  identifier: 0190076801
  identifier: 9780190076801
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    record creation date: 190421
    record change date: 20200812104607.0
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