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Sacred rivals : Catholic missions and the making of Islam in nineteenth-century France and Algeria
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Sacred Rivals focuses on French Catholic ideas about Islam and Arab-ness in the context of religious culture wars in France and of missionary work in colonial Algeria, highlighting the shift from i...
Sacred Rivals focuses on French Catholic ideas about Islam and Arab-ness in the context of religious culture wars in France and of missionary work in colonial Algeria, highlighting the shift from initial admiration for Islam and optimism about Muslim conversion to Christianity to the disillusionment by the end of the nineteenth century when French Catholics joined in racially coded attacks on ""Arab"" Islam.
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- English
- Publication
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023
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- 1 online resource (293 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9780197605288, 0197605281, 9780197605271
- OCLC
- on1371143850
- Description based upon print version of record.
Subjects
- Catholic Church -- Missions -- Algeria -- History.
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Islam.
- Missions, French -- Algeria -- History.
- Islam -- Relations -- Catholic Church.
- Islam -- Public opinion -- History.
- Algeria -- Religion -- 19th century.
- Algeria -- Foreign public opinion, French.
- Algeria -- Relations -- France.
- France -- Relations -- Algeria.