He has held faculty positions at Yale University and the University of Chicago, from where he also received his PhD in intellectual history. Devji was Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, and Head of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, where he directed post-graduate courses in the Near East and Central Asia. He is interested in the political thought of modern Islam as well as in the transformation of liberal categories and democratic practice in South Asia. His broader concerns are with ethics and violence in a globalized world. Devji's book Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity was recently published. An article Professor Devji wrote on the modern nature of Muslim protest against the Danish cartoon appeared in the February 12 edition of The Financial Times.