Secularism Confronts Islam

Olivier Roy

August, 2007
Cloth, 144 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14102-4
$25.50 / £15.00

Preface

Introduction: Laïcité and the Identity of France

1. French Laïcité and Islam: Which Is the Exception?

2. Islam and Secularization

3. The Crisis of the Secular State and the New Forms of Religiosity

4. De Facto Secularization

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Islam
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Olivier Roy is a professor at l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, and a research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. A world authority on Islam and politics, Roy's books are The Failure of Political Islam, The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations, Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah, and, with Mariam Abou Zahab, Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection.

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