Muslims and Citizens

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2020

“This elegant, braided history of Muslims and French citizenship is urgently needed. It will be a ‘must read’ for students of the French Revolution and anyone interested in modern France.”—Carla Hesse, University of California, Berkeley

“The ‘Coller thesis’ 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.”—Peter McPhee, author of Liberty or Death: The French Revolution, 1789–1799

“Coller takes an apparently familiar subject—the global impact of the French Revolution—and gives it a dynamic new twist.”—Marisa Linton, Kingston University

“A 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.”—Michael Rapport, University of Glasgow