by Olivier Roy · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020556699
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«En quête de l'Orient perdu» is the interview book by Olivier Roy with Jean-Louis Schlegel, published by Seuil in paperback (324 pages, in French).
Olivier Roy talks with Jean-Louis Schlegel about his career as a specialist in political Islam: youthful activism, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen and Central Asia. These experiences shape reflections on Islamism, post-Soviet nations, the researcher's relationship with states, and religion in globalization.
Published on October 2, 2014; this edition includes a preface by Olivier Mongin and Jean-Louis Schlegel.
A work of history and politics aimed at those who follow the analysis of Islamism and the geopolitics of the Middle East.
Olivier Roy is a French political scientist and a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has published articles and books on secularization and Islam including "Global Islam" and The Failure of Political Islam. He is known to have "a different view of radical Islam" than some other experts. He sees it as peripheral, Westernized and part of a radicalized and "virtual" rather than a pious and "actual" Muslim community. His most recent writings are about the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the November 2015 Paris attacks.
