En ce début du XXIe siècle, la présence en France d'une population musulmane questionne la notion d'un " islam de France " ancré dans la vie du pays et occupant une place légitime dans la société française et son paysage institutionnel. Cet ouvrage dresse un bilan des connaissances acquises depuis une décennie et analyse ce qu'elles révèlent de la réalité de l'islam en France, de ses legs du passé et de son institutionnalisation. Il permet de comprendre les orientations du débat public sur l'islam, que celles-ci soient induites par des phénomènes propres à l'islam et au monde musulman ou bien qu'elles découlent de certains processus à l'oeuvre dans la société française.

Après " 1905-2005 : les enjeux de la laïcité ", la Commission Islam & Laïcité étend sa réflexion, dans ce deuxième ouvrage, au domaine de l'éducation, et se penche sur la réalité des discriminations à l'école, fondées sur l'origine, en interrogeant les défis posés à la République et à sa vocation de traiter de manière égalitaire tous ses citoyens. Dans une mise en perspective de différents par cours de l'islam en Europe : Espagne, Italie, Pays-Bas, Grande-Bretagne, Turquie, elle montre la diversité des situations des populations " musulmanes ", à la fois en termes d'origine, de diversité sociale, d'adaptation ; et la diversité des systèmes institutionnels auxquels elles sont confrontées. Si elle suscite partout sur le Vieux continent des peurs similaires, la présence musulmane rend visible une question qui se pose de manière renouvelée à l'heure de l'Europe et de la mondialisation : qu'est-ce que vivre ensemble ?

Nearly five million Muslims call France home, the vast majority from former French colonies in North Africa. While France has successfully integrated waves of immigrants in the past, this new influx poses a new variety of challenges—much as it does in neighboring European countries. Alarmists view the growing role of Muslims in French society as a form of "reverse colonization"; they believe Muslim political and religious networks seek to undermine European rule of law or that fundamentalists are creating a society entirely separate from the mainstream. Integrating Islam portrays the more complex reality of integration's successes and failures in French politics and society. From intermarriage rates to economic indicators, the authors paint a comprehensive portrait of Muslims in France. Using original research, they devote special attention to the policies developed by successive French governments to encourage integration and discourage extremism. Because of the size of its Muslim population and its universalistic definition of citizenship, France is an especially good test case for the encounter of Islam and the West. Despite serious and sometimes spectacular problems, the authors see a "French Islam" slowly replacing "Islam in France"–in other words, the emergence of a religion and a culture that feels at home in, and is largely at peace with, its host society. Integrating Islam provides readers with a comprehensive view of the state of Muslim integration into French society that cannot be found anywhere else. It is essential reading for students of French politics and those studying the interaction of Islam and the West, as well as the general public.

A major contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the French West African Federation.

Will Islam be able to adapt to France's secularity and its strict separation of public and private spheres? Can France accommodate Muslims? In this book, Frank Peter argues that the debate about “Islam” and “Muslims” is not simply caused by ignorance or Islamophobia. Rather, it is an integral part of how secularism is reasoned. Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France shows that understanding religion as separate from other aspects of life, such as politics, economy, and culture, disregards the ways religion has operated and been managed in “secular” societies such as France. This book uncovers the varying rationalities of the secular that have developed over the past few decades in France to “govern Islam,” in order to examine how Muslims engage with the secular regime and contribute to its transformation. This book offers a close analysis of French secularism as it has been debated by Islamic intellectuals and activists from the 1990s until the present. It will influence the study of secularism as well as the study of Islam in the French Republic, and reveal new connections between Islamic traditions and secular rationalities.