By William E. Watson Ph.D.
For 1,400 years, France has been in touch with Islam and Muslim populations. This research explores their lengthy courting and background, interpreting particularly the growth and contraction of France's Islamic Empire through the twentieth century. this contemporary empire basically consisted of conquered territories inhabited by way of Muslims and administered by means of Frenchmen. to this point, France has shunned a September 11-type terrorist assault regardless of the intra-country presence of Muslim terrorist teams just like the Roubaix gang and Bin Laden's al-Qa'ida. different Western international locations can research greatly from France's lengthy and sundry experiences.
Watson addresses the origins of Franco-Muslim touch and info early circumstances of French enlargement into the Islamic international. the majority of the e-book, even though, specializes in the production of the fashionable French Empire in Saharan and Sudannic Africa, in addition to in Syria and the Lebanese Mandates, in the course of the New Imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. good points contain a variety of pertinent records that illustrate the level of French involvement with the Islamic world.
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