Inaugural lecture
Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam
- Date
- Tuesday 24 February 2026
- Time
- Address
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FSW building
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden - Room
- 0B13
In his highly anticipated new book, Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Yale University Press 2025), Faisal Devji traces the trajectory of Islam as a historical actor and its implications for Muslim theological authority and political sovereignty. Amidst a dramatically changing international landscape, what impact does the fall of global Islam have on transnational Muslim solidarities?
About Faisal Devji
Faisal Devji is Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford. His work explores the intellectual history and political thought of modern South Asia as well as the emergence of Islam as a global category. His previous works consider different ways in which the idea of humanity achieves political reality, particularly as the simultaneous subject and object of globalisation.
Event Information
This event is the inaugural seminar in the “Genealogies of Islam and Humanitarianism” series organized by the ERC-funded Entangled Universals of Transnational Islamic Charity research project.
Discussant: Dr. Ahab Bdaiwi, University Lecturer of Islamic Thought and History, Leiden University
Participants are invited to join in-person or remotely. Remote participants can register via the button below. The meeting link will be sent to registered participants one week before the event.
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