Davidson, Naomi

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The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, archi…

The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, archi…

Islam is often said to be incompatible with French secularism. Yet the French state never created the conditions for Muslim immigrants to become secular republicans. For Muslim immigrants, who were simultaneously promised equality as individuals and segregated on religious groun…