In 1989 three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to
remove their Islamic headscarves in class. The headscarf crisis
signaled an Islamic revival among the children of North African
immigrants; it also ignited an ongoing debate about the place of
Muslims within the secular nation-state. Based on ten years of
ethnographic research, The Republic Unsettled alternates between an
analysis of Muslim French religiosity and the contradictions of
French secularism that this emergent religiosity precipitated.
Mayanthi L. Fernando explores how Muslim French draw on both
Islamic and secular-republican traditions to create novel modes of
ethical and political life, reconfiguring those traditions to
imagine a new future for France. She also examines how the
political discourses, institutions, and laws that constitute French
secularism regulate Islam, transforming the Islamic tradition and
what it means to be Muslim. Fernando traces how long-standing
tensions within secularism and republican citizenship are displaced
onto France's Muslims, who, as a result, are rendered illegitimate
as political citizens and moral subjects. She argues, ultimately,
that the Muslim question is as much about secularism as it is about
Islam.
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