Only Muslim : embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France / Naomi Davidson.
The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, architectural blueprints,...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Muslims only as Muslims
- Religion and race in the French Mediterranean
- Un monument durable : building the Mosquée de Paris and Institut musulman
- To monitor and aid : Muslim bodies, social assistance, and religious practices
- Islam français, Islam in France : forms of Islam in Paris and the provinces
- Islam français, islam algérien : Islam and the Algerian War in Paris
- Culture and religion : immigration, Islams, and race in 1970s Paris
- Conclusion : "we want to contribute to the secularization of Islam" : islam français in the twenty-first century.