عنوان

Secularism confronts Islam

(Number (ISBN

9780231141024 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

0231141025 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780231511797 (electronic)

(Number (ISBN

0231511795 (electronic)

Number

90-9775

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Secularism confronts Islam

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Olivier Roy .

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

; translated by George Holoch

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: Columbia University Press

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, c2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 128 p.

Dimensions

; 22 cm.

Text of Note

Translated from the French.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-115) and index.

Text of Note

"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 their identities as "true believers." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society." "Roy's rare portrait of the realities of immigrant Muslim life offers a necessary alternative to the popular specter of an "Islamic threat." Supporting his arguments with his extensive research on Islamic history, sociology, and politics, Roy demonstrates the limits of our understanding of contemporary Islamic religious practice in the West and the role of Islam as a screen onto which Western societies project their own identity crisis."--BOOK JACKET.

Islam-- France.

Islam and secularism-- France.

Islam and state-- France.

Laicism-- France.

Fundamentalism-- France.

Class number

Book number

Roy, Olivier,1949-

Date of Transaction

20111015163417.0

Uniform Resource Identifier

BL

251648

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