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Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in contemporary France
ISBN: 9781526144270
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; European Studies ; Sociology ; Middle East Studies;

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

Nadia Kiwan is Lecturer in Francophone Studies at the University of Aberdeen