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Secularism, Islam & Public Intellectuals in Contemporary France

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Secularism, Islam & Public Intellectuals in Contemporary France

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SKU: 9781526160799 Category: Product ID: 366613

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Title: Secularism, Islam & Public Intellectuals in Contemporary France
Author: KIWAN NADIA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 17/02/2022
Imprint: MANCHESTER UNI PRESS
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active

This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leïla Babès, Abdelwahab Meddeb and Dounia Bouzar. In doing so it investigates how these five figures all contribute in their diverse and varying ways to broader understandings of the relationship between Islam and secularism in contemporary French society.

Islam in France is often regarded as a political 'issue' and much of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary France over the last three decades have concentrated on the supposedly 'antagonistic' relationship between France, Islam and its Muslims. Against such a troubled backdrop, however, this book looks at the ways in which certain prominent French Muslim intellectuals seek to articulate a vision of multi-faith co-existence, which embraces a critical secularism, and which simultaneously draw on religious and secular humanist traditions. Intellectuals have historically played a major part in French public life, yet relatively little is known about the work of Abdelwahab Meddeb, Malek Chebel, Leila Babes, Dounia Bouzar and Abdennour Bidar, whose writings and public interventions this book examines. Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in contemporary France will be of particular interest to specialists, undergraduate and post-graduate students working across the Humanities and Social Sciences from disciplines such as Francophone Studies, Anthropology, Religious Studies or Sociology.

Series: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9781526160799
Dimension: 216mm X 138mm

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Dimensions 216 × 138 mm