Waning Crescent - The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam



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2025 | English | 030027663X | True EPUB | 280 pages | 1.43 MB

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 as an historical actor on the world stage, they needed to narrate Islam’s birth anew as well as to imagine its possible death. Faisal Devji argues that this change, sparked by the crisis of Muslim sovereignty in the age of European empire, provided a way of thinking about agency in a global context: an Islam liberated from the authority of kings and clerics had the potential to represent the human race itself as a newly empirical reality.