04339nam a2200565Ki 4500 ocn864900293 OCoLC 20200709060020.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 131210s2012 nyua ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T 9780801465697 (electronic bk.) 0801465699 (electronic bk.) 9780801450914 0801450918 9780801478314 0801478316 (OCoLC)864900293 671399 (N$T) e-fr--- DC34.5.M87 D38 2012eb SOC 031000 bisacsh SOC 020000 bisacsh 305.6/970944 23 N$TA Davidson, Naomi, 1976- Only Muslim : embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France / Naomi Davidson. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) : illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-292) and index. Introduction : Muslims only as Muslims -- Religion and race in the French Mediterranean -- Un monument durable : building the Mosquée de Paris and Institut musulman -- To monitor and aid : Muslim bodies, social assistance, and religious practices -- Islam français, Islam in France : forms of Islam in Paris and the provinces -- Islam français, islam algérien : Islam and the Algerian War in Paris -- 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. 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. Description based on print version record. Muslims France Ethnic identity. Muslims France Social conditions 20th century. Islam France History 20th century. France Ethnic relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Davidson, Naomi, 1976- Only Muslim 9780801450914 (DLC) 2012005181 (OCoLC)775664196 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=671399 EBSCOhost EBSC 671399 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 54197 54197