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Bowen asks not the usual question--how well are Muslims integrating in France?--but, rather, how do French Muslims think about Islam? In particular, Bowen exami
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This text explains why the French government decided to ban religious clothing from public schools and why the 2004 law, which targeted Islamic headscarves, cre
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-20 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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A groundbreaking study of the role of Muslims in eighteenth‑century France “This elegant, braided history of Muslims and French citizenship is urgently need
Constructing Muslims in France
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The Republic Unsettled
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In 1989 three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to remove their Islamic headscarves in class. The headscarf crisis signaled an Islamic revival amon