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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Davidson, Naomi, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Only Muslim : Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France / Naomi Davidson. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (320 p.) : 12 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Muslims only as Muslims -- 1. Religion and Race in the French Mediterranean -- 2. Un monument durable : Building the Mosquée de Paris and Institut Musulman -- 3. To Monitor and Aid: Muslim Bodies, Social Assistance, and Religious Practices -- 4. Islam français, Islam in France: Forms of Islam in Paris and the Provinces -- 5. Islam français, Islam algérien : Islam and the Algerian War in Paris -- 6. "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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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, posters, propaganda films, and documentation from metropolitan and colonial officials as well as anticolonial nationalists, she reveals the ways in which French politicians and social scientists created a distinctly French vision of Islam that would inform public policy and political attitudes toward Muslims for the rest of the century-Islam français. French Muslims were cast into a permanent "otherness" that functioned in the same way as racial difference. This notion that one was only and forever Muslim was attributed to all immigrants from North Africa, though in time "Muslim" came to function as a synonym for Algerian, despite the diversity of the North and West African population.Davidson grounds her narrative in the history of the Mosquée de Paris, which was inaugurated in 1926 and epitomized the concept of Islam français. Built in official gratitude to the tens of thousands of Muslim subjects of France who fought and were killed in World War I, the site also provided the state with a means to regulate Muslim life throughout the metropole beginning during the interwar period. Later chapters turn to the consequences of the state's essentialized view of Muslims in the Vichy years and during the Algerian War. Davidson concludes with current debates over plans to build a Muslim cultural institute in the middle of a Parisian immigrant neighborhood, showing how Islam remains today a marker of an unassimilable difference. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Islam France History 20th century. Muslims France Ethnic identity. Muslims France Social conditions 20th century. Anthropology. Art History. Sociology & Social Science. HISTORY / Europe / France. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801450914 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801465697 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801465697 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801465697/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Muslims only as Muslims -- 1. Religion and Race in the French Mediterranean -- 2. Un monument durable : Building the Mosquée de Paris and Institut Musulman -- 3. To Monitor and Aid: Muslim Bodies, Social Assistance, and Religious Practices -- 4. Islam français, Islam in France: Forms of Islam in Paris and the Provinces -- 5. Islam français, Islam algérien : Islam and the Algerian War in Paris -- 6. "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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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