Islam in the Colonial Policy of France: from the Origins to the Fifth Republic

History of relations between France and the Islamic world goes back to the first centuries of Hijra, when the Franks first faced the Caliphate and its troops in the Eastern and Western Mediterranean. On the eve of the New times Paris had already developed its numerous contacts with Turkey, Iran and the Arab West — the Maghreb area. The conquest of Algeria (from 1830) formed a basis of the French colonial empire in Africa and Asia with the growing role of Islam in political activities and ambitions of Paris. Millions of Muslims in French colonies contributed to growth of political and economic progress of their metropoly with its pretensions to become a great Muslim power. Meanwhile, thousands of them lost their lives during two great world wars of the 20th century. Waves of immigration gave birth to an impressive Islamic community (‘umma), in France, reaching about a million of residents by the middle of the 20th century. With the growth of Muslim immigration from Africa and the Middle East a number of Muslims among the natives of France also augmented. By the end of the last century the Muslims formed as much as about 10 % of the whole population of France. The “French Islam” born at the dawn of the 20th century. after a century of its evolution became an important civilizational reality of Europe, at times more attractive for the local youth than traditional Christian values, or the new ideals, brought with the winds of globalism, multiculturalism and a “non-stop consumerism”.

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Islam in history and culture of France, colonial expansion, assimilation and the muslim emigration, decolonization, Islamic radicalism in Maghreb and in France

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02.05.2021

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21.06.2021

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GOST	Dyakov N. Islam in the Colonial Policy of France: from the Origins to the Fifth Republic // ISTORIYA – 2021. – V. 12. – Issue 5 (103) [Electronic resource]. URL: https://history.jes.su/S207987840015901-0-1 (circulation date: 30.06.2024). DOI: 10.18254/S207987840015901-0
MLA	Dyakov, Nikolay "Islam in the Colonial Policy of France: from the Origins to the Fifth Republic." ISTORIYA 12.5 (103) (2021) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840015901-0
APA	Dyakov N. (2021). Islam in the Colonial Policy of France: from the Origins to the Fifth Republic. ISTORIYA 12(5 (103)) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840015901-0

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