Download or read book Integrating Islam written by Jonathan Laurence and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly five million Muslims call France home, the vast majority from former French colonies in North Africa. While France has successfully integrated waves of immigrants in the past, this new influx poses a new variety of challenges—much as it does in neighboring European countries. Alarmists view the growing role of Muslims in French society as a form of "reverse colonization"; they believe Muslim political and religious networks seek to undermine European rule of law or that fundamentalists are creating a society entirely separate from the mainstream. Integrating Islam portrays the more complex reality of integration's successes and failures in French politics and society. From intermarriage rates to economic indicators, the authors paint a comprehensive portrait of Muslims in France. Using original research, they devote special attention to the policies developed by successive French governments to encourage integration and discourage extremism. Because of the size of its Muslim population and its universalistic definition of citizenship, France is an especially good test case for the encounter of Islam and the West. Despite serious and sometimes spectacular problems, the authors see a "French Islam" slowly replacing "Islam in France"–in other words, the emergence of a religion and a culture that feels at home in, and is largely at peace with, its host society. Integrating Islam provides readers with a comprehensive view of the state of Muslim integration into French society that cannot be found anywhere else. It is essential reading for students of French politics and those studying the interaction of Islam and the West, as well as the general public.
Download or read book Can Islam Be French written by John R. Bowen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bowen asks not the usual question--how well are Muslims integrating in France?--but, rather, how do French Muslims think about Islam? In particular, Bowen examines how French Muslims are fashioning new Islamic institutions and developing new ways of reasoning and teaching. He looks at some of the quite distinct ways in which mosques have connected with broader social and political forces, how Islamic educational entrepreneurs have fashioned niches for new forms of schooling, and how major Islamic public actors have set out a specifically French approach to religious norms. --from publisher description.
Download or read book L islam en France written by Yves Charles Zarka and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essais, entretiens et témoignages à propos de la religion musulmane en France, du Conseil français du culte musulman, des rapports de l'islam avec les valeurs républicaines, de sa médiatisation, de la place des femmes dans l'islam, des pratiques religieuses musulmanes... Y.C. Zarka dénonce, dans son introduction, l'esprit de conquête qui anime, selon lui, l'islam.
Download or read book Islam en France Islam de France written by Jacques Barou and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En ce début du XXIe siècle, la présence en France d'une population musulmane questionne la notion d'un " islam de France " ancré dans la vie du pays et occupant une place légitime dans la société française et son paysage institutionnel. Cet ouvrage dresse un bilan des connaissances acquises depuis une décennie et analyse ce qu'elles révèlent de la réalité de l'islam en France, de ses legs du passé et de son institutionnalisation. Il permet de comprendre les orientations du débat public sur l'islam, que celles-ci soient induites par des phénomènes propres à l'islam et au monde musulman ou bien qu'elles découlent de certains processus à l'oeuvre dans la société française.
Download or read book For the Muslims written by Edwy Plenel and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piercing denunciation of Islamophobia in France, in the tradition of Emile Zola At the beginning of the twenty-first century, leading intellectuals are claiming “There is a problem with Islam in France,” thus legitimising the discourse of the racist National Front. Such claims have been strengthened by the backlash since the terrorist attacks in Paris in January and November 2015, coming to represent a new ‘common sense’ in the political landscape, and we have seen a similar logic play out in the United States and Europe. Edwy Plenel, former editorial director of Le Monde, essayist and founder of the investigative journalism website Mediapart tackles these claims head-on, taking the side of his compatriots of Muslim origin, culture or belief, against those who make them into scapegoats. He demonstrates how a form of “Republican and secularist fundamentalism” has become a mask to hide a new form of virulent Islamophobia. At stake for Plenel is not just solidarity but fidelity to the memory and heritage of emancipatory struggles and he writes in defence of the Muslims, just as Zola wrote in defence of the Jews and Sartre wrote in defence of the blacks. For if we are to be for the oppressed then we must be for the Muslims.
Download or read book Arab France written by Ian Coller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ian Coller's fascinating book explores the making of modern France during the Napoleonic period and under the Restoration 'from the outside inward'. He examines the life of Arab migrants in France: their role as outsiders, and victims, but also as participants in the creation of the modern nation and its empire. In the process he also throws much light on the history of the contemporary Arab Middle East and North Africa."—C.A. Bayly, University of Cambridge
Download or read book Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France written by Frank Peter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Islam be able to adapt to France's secularity and its strict separation of public and private spheres? Can France accommodate Muslims? In this book, Frank Peter argues that the debate about “Islam” and “Muslims” is not simply caused by ignorance or Islamophobia. Rather, it is an integral part of how secularism is reasoned. Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France shows that understanding religion as separate from other aspects of life, such as politics, economy, and culture, disregards the ways religion has operated and been managed in “secular” societies such as France. This book uncovers the varying rationalities of the secular that have developed over the past few decades in France to “govern Islam,” in order to examine how Muslims engage with the secular regime and contribute to its transformation. This book offers a close analysis of French secularism as it has been debated by Islamic intellectuals and activists from the 1990s until the present. It will influence the study of secularism as well as the study of Islam in the French Republic, and reveal new connections between Islamic traditions and secular rationalities.
Download or read book Musulmans de France written by Gilles Couvreur and published by Editions de l'Atelier. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secularism Islam and Public Intellectuals in Contemporary France written by Nadia Kiwan and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leïla Babès, AbdelwahabMeddeb and Dounia Bouzar. In doing so it investigates how these five figures allcontribute in their diverse and varying ways to broader understandings of therelationship between Islam and secularism in contemporary French society.
Download or read book The Spread of Islam in France written by Michel Reeber and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the 1980s France has witnessed intensive preaching activity in Muslim quarters. Hitherto studies of Islamic preaching by the Muslim community that has settled in France for some decades has been rare. This book tries to bring out the significance of this phenomenon of reislamization and mobilisation of the Muslim community in France. It also analyses how the preaching of Islam is modified palpably as it evolves in the Western context.
Download or read book Muslims and Citizens written by Ian Coller and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of the role of Muslims in eighteenth‑century France “This elegant, braided history of Muslims and French citizenship is urgently needed. It will be a ‘must read’ for students of the French Revolution and anyone interested in modern France.”— Carla Hesse, University of California, Berkeley From the beginning, French revolutionaries imagined their transformation as a universal one that must include Muslims, Europe’s most immediate neighbors. They believed in a world in which Muslims could and would be French citizens, but they disagreed violently about how to implement their visions of universalism and accommodate religious and social difference. Muslims, too, saw an opportunity, particularly as European powers turned against the new French Republic, leaving the Muslim polities of the Middle East and North Africa as France’s only friends in the region. In Muslims and Citizens, Coller examines how Muslims came to participate in the political struggles of the revolution and how revolutionaries used Muslims in France and beyond as a test case for their ideals. In his final chapter, Coller reveals how the French Revolution’s fascination with the Muslim world paved the way to Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Egypt in 1798.
Download or read book Muslims in France written by Tariq Ramadan and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Muslims written by Sharif Gemie and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it possesses a rigidly organized, centralized state, whose bureaucrats and civil servants are animated by a code of secular activism. On the other hand, France is also the home for Europe's largest Muslim minority, variously estimated at numbering between four and six million people. This means that in terms of simple numbers, France can be counted as the world's fifteenth Islamic power. Previous conflicts with religion have left a deep impression on French political culture: from the sixteenth and seventeenth-century conflicts between Catholics and Protestants played to the formation of the collaborationist Vichy government in 1940. In recent decades, Muslims have been stigmatized as an irreconcilable minority unable to adapt to the secular culture of the majority of French citizens. This work draws out the political implications of the current conflict. It is based on events and publications produced in a single five year period, beginning with the shock of the 2002 Presidential elections, in which Le Pen was the second most successful candidate, ranging through the legislation of March 2004 which banned the Islamic headscarf from French state schools, and which sparked off a series of bad-tempered exchanges between left and right-wing French nationalists, anti-racism campaigners, secularists, anti-clericals and a variety of Muslim authors.
Download or read book L Islam et les musulmans en France written by Mohammed Telhine and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quelle fut la place de la mosquée, ce symbole islamique, dans les relations de la France avec l'Islam ? La politique musulmane interne de la France est-elle formatée par l'héritage colonial ? La mosquée "digne", c'est-à-dire reconnaissable, est au cŒur du dispositif identitaire et du processus intégratif. Lieu de socialisation et de production du sens, elle polarise des enjeux de pouvoir et de stratégies étatiques associatives et intergénérationnelles. Cette plongée dans l'histoire de l'Islam de France éclaire la relation de la France avec l'Islam.
Download or read book L islam en France written by Alain Boyer and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 1998 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'Islam est devenu, par le nombre de ses fidèles, la deuxième religion en France. Pourtant sa place n'est pas toujours reconnue, et son implantation, dans le paysage religieux français, reste souvent contestée. Jouissant d'une égalité de droit, le culte musulman souffre souvent d'une inégalité de fait, dans les conditions mêmes de son exercice, par rapport aux autres cultes. Les musulmans rencontrent des difficultés pour pratiquer leur religion, tandis que l'islam, trop souvent assimilé à l'islamisme, suscite des préjugés et des peurs dans la population française. Le présent ouvrage décrit les étapes de la constitution récente des communautés musulmanes en France, largement issues de l'immigration. Il souligne la diversité des populations musulmanes, la division des communautés, les tentatives de tutelles étrangères et l'absence d'organisation représentative qui empêchent la solution des problèmes concrets et freinent l'intégration des musulmans. L'islam devient de plus en plus présent et visible en France. Une nouvelle génération parvient à affirmer sa fidélité à la foi musulmane dans la France laïque et républicaine, ce qui facilitera l'enracinement de l'islam et ouvrira de nouvelles perspectives théologiques. L'islam est ainsi appelé à prendre toute sa place à "la table de la République", à condition d'en accepter les règles. Cette intégration suppose des évolutions internes aux communautés musulmanes, et une ouverture de la laïcité française à la présence des musulmans.
Download or read book Charte du culte musulman en France written by Dalil Boubakeur and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Republic of Islamophobia written by James Wolfreys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does Islamophobia dominate public debate in France? Islamophobia in France is rising, with Muslims subjected to unprecedented scrutiny of what they wear, eat and say. Championed by Marine Le Pen and drawing on the French colonial legacy, France's 'new secularism' gives racism a respectable veneer. Jim Wolfreys exposes the dynamic driving this intolerance: a society polarized by inequality, and the authoritarian neoliberalism of the French political mainstream. This officially sanctioned Islamophobia risks going unchallenged. It has divided the traditional anti-racist movement and undermined the left's opposition to bigotry. Wolfreys deftly unravels the problems facing those trying to confront today's rise in racism. Republic of Islamophobia illuminates both the uniqueness of France's anti-Muslim backlash and its broader implications for the West.
