Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France

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).

This book is theoretically sophisticated, sociologically and historically detailed, politically engaged, and compellingly argued. Frank Peter commands his subject like no other.

• 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 BibliographyIndex