Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Reconstructing the discursive context of secularism
2 The social Republic
3 Rationalizing integration
4 Islam and society: entwinement and separation
5 Teaching freedom
6 “The history of some is not the history of others”
7 Islam and fiction beyond freedom of speech
8 Islamophobia and the critique of integration
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

This book examines local forms of Islam in France by analyzing secular politics and Muslim discourses from 1989 until the present.

About the Author

Frank Peter is Research Associate at the Erlangen Center for Islam and Law in Europe, Germany. He has authored and co-edited a number of volumes including Islamic Movements of Europe: Public Religion and Islamophobia in the Modern World (2014) and Impérialisme et industrialisation à Damas, 1908-1939 (2010).

Reviews

This book is theoretically sophisticated, sociologically and historically detailed, politically engaged, and compellingly argued. Frank Peter commands his subject like no other.
*Paul A. Silverstein, Professor of Anthropology, Reed College, USA*

Among recent works on European forms of governance of Islam, Frank Peter’s stands out for its breadth and for its strong, consistent theoretical argument.
*John R. Bowen, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, USA*

Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France’s discourse analysis is ambitious and exhaustive and, for English-language audiences, offers a rare overview of the governance of Islam in France ... Scholars in secularism studies, as well as sociologists and historians of Islam and Muslims in France will find this book worth reading.
*Journal of Muslims in Europe*