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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 7 Notes on the text 9 Acknowledgements 10 Introduction 11 Abdelwahab Meddeb: post-foundational.Islam 30 Malek Chebel: Enlightenment Islam 62 Leïla Babès: spirituality, affect and women 95 Dounia Bouzar: public intellectuals as policy experts in times of crisis 117 Abdennour Bidar: existentialist Islam as intercultural translation 139 Conclusion 172 Bibliography 181 Index 191 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2019,ISBN:9781526144270,Language:English,OCLC:1142307111 This book focuses on how Muslim intellectuals in contemporary France contribute to our understanding of the relationship between Islam, secularism and French society. Whilst most books about Islam in France tend to examine polemicized issues such as the veil or Islamist violence, this book’s focus on secular Muslim intellectuals challenges polarizing accounts of Islam and Muslims. Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in contemporary France thus departs from the ‘clash of civilisations’ approach and, more broadly challenges divisive claims that European ‘multiculturalism’ must be abandoned in order to uphold democratic principles and values. The book entails a co

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Author

France;France / Intellectual life / 21st century;Kiwan, Nadia

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526144270

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Islam, History, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-24