Titled "Abbottabad", the project will be produced by Bhardwaj and Junglee Pictures.
The book, written by Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, is an an insider's account of al-Qaida after 9/11.
It is about the history of the terrorist network, from 2001 to the present and reveals a dark web of familial and political machinations.
No further details about the project, including the cast have been revealed yet.
The filmmaker has earlier adapted Shakespearean tragedies - "Macbeth" ("Maqbool"), "Othello" ("Omkara") and "Hamlet" ("Haider"). He has also brought Ruskin Bonds's "The Blue Umbrella" and "Susanna's Seven Husbands" ("7 Khoon Maaf") to the silver screen.
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