Olivier Roy – This is not an Islamic revolution
An excellent piece on Islam and the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions by Olivier Roy, one of Europe's foremost thinkers on Islam. He affirms that political Islam will have a role to play in the development of both countries but also argues that it is by now defanged and co-opted into the socio-political mainstream.
"The paradox of Islamisation is that it has largely depoliticised Islam. Social and cultural re-Islamisation – the wearing of the hijab and niqab, an increase in the number of mosques, the proliferation of preachers and Muslim television channels – has happened without the intervention of militant Islamists and has in fact opened up a "religious market", over which no one enjoys a monopoly. In short, the Islamists have lost the stranglehold on religious expression in the public sphere that they enjoyed in the 1980s."
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June 13, 2011 3:41 pm
I just finished reading Olivier Roy’s pertinent text “This is not an Islamic Revolution”.
Could you permit us to translate the text into German and publish the translation in one of the forthcoming issues of pour political magazine DIE GAZETTE ?
We are unfortunately not in a position to pay license fees since we are, much against our will, still a non profit magazine.
But I do hope that will not be an unsurmountable stumbling stone.
If need be, could you please forward this request to the conmpetent person or give us an e-mail adresse whre we should forward this request to.
Thank you in advance:
Fritz Glunk
June 14, 2011 12:50 pm
Hi. I’m afraid you’ve misread the post. It wasn’t published by Irish Left Review; we merely linked to it. It was published in the New Statesman magazine and you will have to contact them for permission to reuse it.