{"id":20227,"date":"2020-04-09T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=20227"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T12:53:41","slug":"ian-coller-muslims-and-citizens-islam-politics-and-the-french-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=20227","title":{"rendered":"Ian Coller, &#8220;Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the beginning, French revolutionaries imagined their transformation as a universal one that must include Muslims, Europe\u2019s most immediate neighbors. They believed in a world in which Muslims could and would be French citizens, but they disagreed violently about how to implement their visions of universalism and accommodate religious and social difference. Muslims, too, saw an opportunity, particularly as European powers turned against the new French Republic, leaving the Muslim polities of the Middle East and North Africa as France\u2019s only friends in the region. In Muslims and Citizens, Coller examines how Muslims came to participate in the political struggles of the revolution and how revolutionaries used Muslims in France and beyond as a test case for their ideals. In his final chapter, Coller reveals how the French Revolution\u2019s fascination with the Muslim world paved the way to Napoleon\u2019s disastrous invasion of Egypt in 1798.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A groundbreaking study of the role of Muslims in eighteenth-century France<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yale University Press<\/p>\n<p>March 20, 2020<\/p>\n<p>360 pages<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300243369\/muslims-and-citizens\">https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300243369\/muslims-and-citizens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ian Coller is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798\u20131831.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis elegant, braided history of Muslims and French citizenship is urgently needed. It will be a \u2018must read\u2019 for students of the French Revolution and anyone interested in modern France.\u201d\u2014 Carla Hesse, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The &#8216;Coller thesis&#8217; challenges us to rethink the internationalism of the French Revolution from the perspective of the revolutionary Mediterranean and the Muslim world, not the Atlantic alone. This is provocative and brilliant history.&#8221;\u2014Peter McPhee, author of <em>Liberty or Death: The French Revolution, 1789-1799<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColler takes an apparently familiar subject\u2014the global impact of the French Revolution\u2014and gives it a dynamic new twist.\u201d \u2014Marisa Linton, Kingston University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA fascinating and brilliant book. The way in which Muslims in France lived through the Revolution and the shaping of French attitudes towards Muslims reveals much about the French revolutionary construction of citizenship and identity in this epoch.\u201d \u2014Michael Rapport, University of Glasgow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/coller.jpg?fit=220%2C335&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54174,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54174","url_meta":{"origin":20227,"position":0},"title":"Yanni Kotsonis, &#8220;The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"18. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"A sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. 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