Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution
Ian Coller
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (January 7, 2020)
ISBN-13: 9780300243369

From the beginning, French revolutionaries imagined their transformation as a universal one that must include Muslims. They believed in a world in which Muslims could and would be French citizens, but disagreed violently about how to implement their visions and accommodate religious and social difference. Here, Coller examines how Muslims came to participate in the political struggles of the revolution and how the fledgling coalition would rupture with France’s disastrous 1798 invasion of Egypt.

Ian Coller is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe 1798-1831. Coller lives in Irvine, CA.