© Columbia University Press
Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
Paper, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13499-6
$21.95
November, 2004
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13498-9
$75.00
"Olivier Roy is perhaps the most provocative and innovative writer on Islamism today. . . . There is no more reliable guide to this labyrinth." — Martin Kramer, Middle East Quarterly
"High-octane brainwork...a large and highly intelligent contribution." — The Economist
"His new book provides one of the best and most detailed snapshots of 'real existing Islam' currently available." — Jonathan Steele, The Guardian
"Nuanced discussion." — Nader Hashemi, Globe and Mail
"Roy cuts through the mystical veil of religion...Globalized Islam gets under the skin of today's quintessentially modern forms of Islam and points the debate in a new direction." — Josie Appleton, Spiked Online
"Roy's sociological analysis is always insightful." — Mahmood Mamdani, Foreign Affairs
"Superb and complex sociological study." — Fawaz A. Gerces, Washington Post Book World
"[Roy] suggest[s] that the important events in the world of Islam are taking place not in the regions we ordinarily think of as Islamic but in Europe." — Noah Feldman, New York Times Book Review
"A very well-informed tour of the complexities of contemporary Islam." — Future Survey
"Oliver Roy's writings are always worth reading, and Globalized Islam is no exception." — Middle East Journal
"An in-depth analysis...An ambitious project...Recommended." — Choice
"This book is a wonderful exploration of ideas on the future of Islamic radicalism." — LCDR Aboul-Enein, Strategic Insight
"Always ahead of his time." — Reuel Marc Gerecht, Weekly Standard
"Roy is enormously knowledgeable and well aware of the problems faced by young Muslims." — Lawrence Rosen, London Review of Books
"Roy's sociological theories cast a refreshing light on Islam's role as a minority religion in the West." — American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences
"An essential key to understanding not evident in similar-sounding discussions." — Midwest Book Review: California Bookwatch
"This is an important book, one that must be read... [and] will serve as a useful referent for some time." — Sanford Silverburg, Digest of Middle East Studies
"One of the Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International's 25 Top Books for Today's Bookshelf on Terrorism." — Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International
"The most comprehensive and rigorous study of the subject to date." — John Gray, Harper’s
"A characteristically informed and incisive analysis of the new transnational movements and globalized responses that have developed in that past twenty years or so in the Muslim world. In this work, as in his others, he draws upon a profound knowledge of individual Muslim groups and an acute understanding of the interaction between theology and politics. . . . Roy is one of the most important analysts of political Islam today." — James Piscatori, fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford
"This book extends the argument of Roy’s The Failure of Political Islam, both by taking into account the momentous impact of new jihad movements like Al Qaeda, as well as by looking closely at the development of immigrant groups in the West. . . . Brilliant insights on almost every page." — Faisal Devji, Yale University
"Olivier Roy [is] one of the two most distinguished contemporary commentators on the Muslim Middle East and Central Asia. From intensive early work on Afghanistan nearly three decades ago, he has expanded his scope to see the multiple linkages between ideas and political and religious movements throughout the region. He moves almost effortlessly between geopolitics and the politics of interrelated localities, asking new and probing questions in the process" — Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College