Markus Daechsel
Biographic Data
| ID | 700513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Markus Daechsel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Markus |
| FAMILY NAME | Daechsel |
| SIGNATURE | DAECHSEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-1381-4707 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Religion and the rise of magic in Urdu print culture
This article offers a first survey of a novel genre of grimoires published in Urdu-reading India in the early twentieth century. It contained a wide selection of magic material from Islamicate and Tantric sources as well as Western parapsychology and spiritualism. Its applications ranged from remedies of last resort in illness, relationship troubles, and other life problems to common household cures and magical tricks performed for pleasure alone…
Philosophie in der islamischen Welt. Band 4/1
International audience
J ulia S tephens . Governing Islam
Julia Stephens’s admirable, theory-driven book Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia offers welcome food for thought to anyone interested in the historical evolution of religious identity politics in India. How is it that the country’s Muslim minority is so politically invested in certain stipulations of shariʿa law? And why do they look to the judiciary of a “secular” state to administer and protect this law? She makes two l…
Ayesha Jalal. The Struggle for Pakistan
There is a long tradition of telling Pakistan’s history as a tale of things going wrong. Once upon a time in the early 1960s, the country was the poster child of the Western-led global development effort. But ever since its eastern wing broke off in an exceptionally bloody conflict to become independent Bangladesh, a majority of writers both inside and outside of academia have pondered some version of the question “Can Pakistan survive?” as the v…
Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan
Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan
Misplaced Ekistics
Islamabad – Pakistan's purpose-built new capital city at the foothills of the Himalayas – was one of the most significant urban reconstruction projects of the twentieth century. It marked the coming together of two historical events: on one side, the takeover of power of General Ayub Khan and his need to prove to his nation and the world at large that he was better at doing ‘development’ than any previous administration; and on the other, the ris…
Sovereignty, Governmentality and Development in Ayub's Pakistan
This paper uses a historical ethnography of the construction of Korangi Township outside Karachi to analyse the configuration of power in the post-colonial Pakistani state of the late 1950s and 1960s. Foucault's distinction between 'sovereign', 'disciplinary' and 'security' power helps to reveal how possibilities of non-interventionist control were deliberately discarded in favour of an (often theatrical) exercise of 'raw' power. The way in which…
Scientism and Its Discontents
This essay offers a detailed reconstruction of the thought of Inayatullah Khan al-Mashriqi, a camp-follower of fascism in inter-war India who sought to reformulate Islam as a “Religion of Science” according to the precepts of Darwinian evolutionism. Mashriqi has so far been neglected because his political impact was only short-term and did not contribute to the larger story of decolonization in India and Pakistan. But far from being marginal, Mas…
The politics of self-expression
Ālim Ḍākū and the Mystery of the Rubber Sea Monster
Detective fiction counts amongst the most successful literary products that the metropolitan west has exported to the world periphery. Between the end of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War the genre acquired a global presence – both in the form of translations of existing works such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, and in the form of numerous indigenous adaptations. This kind of literature represented a prime example o…
Military Islamisation in Pakistan and the spectre of colonial perceptions
This article interprets General Zia ul‐Haq's Islamisation policies as the working of a political identity conditioned largely by its colonial roots. Pakistani nationalism and the ethos of the Pakistan Army were the most important formative elements of the state's military consciousness. In both elements, colonial patterns of thought are prevalent. The largely unchanged social practices of the Pakistan armed forces today are responsible for the pr…
Sovereignty, Governmentality and Development in Ayub's Pakistan
This paper uses a historical ethnography of the construction of Korangi Township outside Karachi to analyse the configuration of power in the post-colonial Pakistani state of the late 1950s and 1960s. Foucault's distinction between 'sovereign', 'disciplinary' and 'security' power helps to reveal how possibilities of non-interventionist control were deliberately discarded in favour of an (often theatrical) exercise of 'raw' power. The way in which…
Military Islamisation in Pakistan and the spectre of colonial perceptions
This article interprets General Zia ul‐Haq's Islamisation policies as the working of a political identity conditioned largely by its colonial roots. Pakistani nationalism and the ethos of the Pakistan Army were the most important formative elements of the state's military consciousness. In both elements, colonial patterns of thought are prevalent. The largely unchanged social practices of the Pakistan armed forces today are responsible for the pr…
Misplaced Ekistics
Islamabad – Pakistan's purpose-built new capital city at the foothills of the Himalayas – was one of the most significant urban reconstruction projects of the twentieth century. It marked the coming together of two historical events: on one side, the takeover of power of General Ayub Khan and his need to prove to his nation and the world at large that he was better at doing ‘development’ than any previous administration; and on the other, the ris…
Scientism and Its Discontents
This essay offers a detailed reconstruction of the thought of Inayatullah Khan al-Mashriqi, a camp-follower of fascism in inter-war India who sought to reformulate Islam as a “Religion of Science” according to the precepts of Darwinian evolutionism. Mashriqi has so far been neglected because his political impact was only short-term and did not contribute to the larger story of decolonization in India and Pakistan. But far from being marginal, Mas…
Ālim Ḍākū and the Mystery of the Rubber Sea Monster
Detective fiction counts amongst the most successful literary products that the metropolitan west has exported to the world periphery. Between the end of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War the genre acquired a global presence – both in the form of translations of existing works such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, and in the form of numerous indigenous adaptations. This kind of literature represented a prime example o…
Military Islamisation in Pakistan and the spectre of colonial perceptions
This article interprets General Zia ul‐Haq's Islamisation policies as the working of a political identity conditioned largely by its colonial roots. Pakistani nationalism and the ethos of the Pakistan Army were the most important formative elements of the state's military consciousness. In both elements, colonial patterns of thought are prevalent. The largely unchanged social practices of the Pakistan armed forces today are responsible for the pr…
Ālim Ḍākū and the Mystery of the Rubber Sea Monster
Detective fiction counts amongst the most successful literary products that the metropolitan west has exported to the world periphery. Between the end of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War the genre acquired a global presence – both in the form of translations of existing works such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, and in the form of numerous indigenous adaptations. This kind of literature represented a prime example o…
Scientism and Its Discontents
This essay offers a detailed reconstruction of the thought of Inayatullah Khan al-Mashriqi, a camp-follower of fascism in inter-war India who sought to reformulate Islam as a “Religion of Science” according to the precepts of Darwinian evolutionism. Mashriqi has so far been neglected because his political impact was only short-term and did not contribute to the larger story of decolonization in India and Pakistan. But far from being marginal, Mas…
The politics of self-expression
Sovereignty, Governmentality and Development in Ayub's Pakistan
This paper uses a historical ethnography of the construction of Korangi Township outside Karachi to analyse the configuration of power in the post-colonial Pakistani state of the late 1950s and 1960s. Foucault's distinction between 'sovereign', 'disciplinary' and 'security' power helps to reveal how possibilities of non-interventionist control were deliberately discarded in favour of an (often theatrical) exercise of 'raw' power. The way in which…
Misplaced Ekistics
Islamabad – Pakistan's purpose-built new capital city at the foothills of the Himalayas – was one of the most significant urban reconstruction projects of the twentieth century. It marked the coming together of two historical events: on one side, the takeover of power of General Ayub Khan and his need to prove to his nation and the world at large that he was better at doing ‘development’ than any previous administration; and on the other, the ris…
Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan
Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan
Ayesha Jalal. The Struggle for Pakistan
There is a long tradition of telling Pakistan’s history as a tale of things going wrong. Once upon a time in the early 1960s, the country was the poster child of the Western-led global development effort. But ever since its eastern wing broke off in an exceptionally bloody conflict to become independent Bangladesh, a majority of writers both inside and outside of academia have pondered some version of the question “Can Pakistan survive?” as the v…
J ulia S tephens . Governing Islam
Julia Stephens’s admirable, theory-driven book Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia offers welcome food for thought to anyone interested in the historical evolution of religious identity politics in India. How is it that the country’s Muslim minority is so politically invested in certain stipulations of shariʿa law? And why do they look to the judiciary of a “secular” state to administer and protect this law? She makes two l…
Religion and the rise of magic in Urdu print culture
This article offers a first survey of a novel genre of grimoires published in Urdu-reading India in the early twentieth century. It contained a wide selection of magic material from Islamicate and Tantric sources as well as Western parapsychology and spiritualism. Its applications ranged from remedies of last resort in illness, relationship troubles, and other life problems to common household cures and magical tricks performed for pleasure alone…
Philosophie in der islamischen Welt. Band 4/1
International audience
History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works)