Najeeb A. Jan is Assistant Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

‘An urgent and extraordinary book. Weaving a philosophical analysis of Heidegger, Agamben and Foucault, Jan draws out the implications of their thought for a radical analysis of the ontological politics of Islam and Pakistan. Whether writing about the ‘Ulama and Deoband schools, blasphemy laws, the military, beards, or the Bamiyan Buddhas, Jan provokes and challenges our thinking while unearthing the ground on which Pakistan—and our world—are built.’Joel Wainwright, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, USA‘In this exceptionally inventive and important book, Jan shows us that the problems besetting political life in Pakistan are part of a more troubling crisis in modern forms of power. Challenging accounts that cordon off “political Islam” from “the West,” Jan discloses their fundamental indistinction and thus, through his practice of critical ontology, reorients our understanding of how power and violence are at work in the world.’Joshua Barkan, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USA

• Series Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementIntroduction Islamapolis: The Crisis of Islam and the Political in Pakistan1. Critical Ontology: The Biopolitical Apparatus2. The Space of Emergency: The Military, Discipline and Political Theology3. The Space of Law: ‘Ulama, Shari‘a, and the Technology of Blasphemy4. The Space of War:  Homo Islamicus, Body Politics and Jihad5. The Space of Exception: Nationalism and Biopolitical SovereigntyConclusion: The Metacolonial and The Space of ThinkingAppendix AAppendix BGlossaryReferences

Najeeb A. Jan is Assistant Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

‘An urgent and extraordinary book. Weaving a philosophical analysis of Heidegger, Agamben and Foucault, Jan draws out the implications of their thought for a radical analysis of the ontological politics of Islam and Pakistan. Whether writing about the ‘Ulama and Deoband schools, blasphemy laws, the military, beards, or the Bamiyan Buddhas, Jan provokes and challenges our thinking while unearthing the ground on which Pakistan—and our world—are built.’Joel Wainwright, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, USA‘In this exceptionally inventive and important book, Jan shows us that the problems besetting political life in Pakistan are part of a more troubling crisis in modern forms of power. Challenging accounts that cordon off “political Islam” from “the West,” Jan discloses their fundamental indistinction and thus, through his practice of critical ontology, reorients our understanding of how power and violence are at work in the world.’Joshua Barkan, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USA

• Series Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementIntroduction Islamapolis: The Crisis of Islam and the Political in Pakistan1. Critical Ontology: The Biopolitical Apparatus2. The Space of Emergency: The Military, Discipline and Political Theology3. The Space of Law: ‘Ulama, Shari‘a, and the Technology of Blasphemy4. The Space of War:  Homo Islamicus, Body Politics and Jihad5. The Space of Exception: Nationalism and Biopolitical SovereigntyConclusion: The Metacolonial and The Space of ThinkingAppendix AAppendix BGlossaryReferences