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Secularism Confronts Islam
Olivier Roy
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Description for Secularism Confronts Islam
Paperback. Translator(s): Holoch, George. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HRAF; HRAM; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202.
The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French--and, consequently, secular and liberal-society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a "true believer." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society. Western society is ... Read more
The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French--and, consequently, secular and liberal-society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a "true believer." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society. Western society is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
202g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231141031
SKU
V9780231141031
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About Olivier Roy
Olivier Roy is research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris. His books with Columbia University Press include The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East; Globalized Islam; and, with Amel Boubekeur, Whatever Happened to the Islamists? ... Read more
Reviews for Secularism Confronts Islam
A work of sustained deconstruction, [Roy] takes apart the myths, cliches and prejudices which characterise the current conversation about Islam. The Economist [A] brilliant little book.
Philip H. Gordon Foreign Affairs A remarkable book: articulate, original, lucid, without a paragraph that fails to contain an interesting thought.
Claire Belinski New York Sun [A] valuable little monograph.
Martin ... Read more
Philip H. Gordon Foreign Affairs A remarkable book: articulate, original, lucid, without a paragraph that fails to contain an interesting thought.
Claire Belinski New York Sun [A] valuable little monograph.
Martin ... Read more