Tricolor and Crescent
Subtitle: France and the Islamic World
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: June 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780275974701
Subjects: Colonization & independence; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Islamic studies; World history; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; ASIA; Africa; Europe; Islamic countries; Europe - France; Middle East - General; World - Colonial Studies; History / Europe / General; International Relations - General; France; Relations
First sentence: The initial Arab drive to expand Islam carried Muslim armies and Muslim colonists into Europe in the first half of the eighth century.
Description: France's contacts with Islam and Moslem populations (especially its fallen Empire and domestic population of Algerians, Turks, and other Muslim immigrants) have conditioned French foreign and domestic policies. After briefly discussing the Crusades, Napoleon's campaigns in Egypt, the French Foreign Legion's campaigns in Algeria and Morocco, and other pre-World War I events, Watson (history, Immaculata College) reviews "contacts" during the 20th century, notably the rise and fall of the French Islamic Empire and the Algerian Crisis.