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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Translated from the French. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Intro; Table of Contents; Foreword, by Olivier Mongin and Jean-Louis Schlegel; Part I. Preamble; 1. Hitchhiking from Paris to Kabul: A Look Back at a Departure; Part II. From Louis-le-Grand to Dreux Via Afghanistan; 2. Louis-le-Grand, the May 1968 Revolution, and Learning Persian; 3. Louis-le-Grand, Normale supâ#x80;#x99;, and the Crisis of the Humanities; 4. Oriental Scents: From Yemen to China; 5. Return to the Fold; 6. Postcards and American Pool; 7. Professor at Dreux: Leftist, Away from Paris, and Happy; 8. Out of School; Part III. The Afghan Decade; 9. Once Again, and for Real, Afghanistan. |
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10. On Foot, on Horseback, and Wearing a Burka in Wartime Afghanistan11. Blue Helmets and Russian Bombs; 12. The Failure of Political Islam; 13. War Experience: Prisoners and Bandits; 14. Jihad; 15. The Afghan Circus; Part IV. The Central Asia Decade; 16. A Soviet Invitation to Central Asia; 17. A Diplomatic Passport; 18. The Expert and the Politician; 19. Marriage: The Orient Lost and Found; Part V. Cultures and the Universally Human: Toward Holy Ignorance; 20. The Crisis of Cultures and the Universal; 21. What Was Good About Orientalism; 22. Against the Secularistsâ#x80;#x99; Essentialism. |
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23. The Decade 2000â#x80;#x93;2010: Where Were You on September 11, 2001?Part VI. The Importance of a Religious Genealogy; 24. Portrait of a Young Protestant in the 1950s and â#x80;#x99;60s; 25. Can One Think Oneâ#x80;#x99;s Own Life?; Epilogue: A Story to End All Stories; Notes. |
| Summary |
Olivier Roy is one of the world's leading experts on political Islam. But he is not only a scholar--he is also a traveler. Roy's keen and iconoclastic insights emerge from a lifetime of study combined with intrepid exploration through Afghanistan and Central Asia. In this book-length interview, Roy tells the lively and colorful story of his many adventures and discoveries in a variety of social and political settings and how they have come to shape his understanding of the Islamic world and its complex recent history. In Search of the Lost Orient is a candid, personal account of the experiences that led Roy to challenge his youthful ideas of an untouched, romanticized East and build a new intellectual framework to better understand and cohabit with the religions, politics, and cultures of the East, West, North, and South. In conversation with Jean-Louis Schlegel of the French magazine Esprit, Roy offers insight into the key themes of his career. Roy's immersion in the complexities of many Central Asian territories started him on his critique of the idea of an essentialized Islam. Alongside tales of backpacking from Paris to Kabul, his Afghan decade during the Soviet invasion, and official travel to post-Soviet Central Asia in the 1990s, Roy reflects on the nature of political and humanitarian engagement in this part of the world. He recounts his formative years, education, and developing political commitments and speaks to his evolving place within France's shifting intellectual and religious cultures. This book outlines Roy's lifelong practice--a combination of deliberate research goals and chance encounters--that examines Islam, immigration, and, more broadly, the future of cultures, religions, and secularism in the face of globalization. Both a significant intellectual autobiography and a compelling travelogue through some of the world's pivotal places, In Search of the Lost Orient offers a striking testimony to the many facets of an exceptional thinker. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Roy, Olivier, 1949- -- Interviews.
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Roy, Olivier, 1949- |
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Interviews.
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Islam and politics.
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Islam and politics. |
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Religion and culture -- Islamic countries.
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Religion and culture. |
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Islamic countries. |
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Political culture -- Islamic countries.
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Civil society -- Islamic countries.
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Political culture. |
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Islamic countries -- Politics and government.
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Civil society. |
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Political scientists -- France -- Interviews.
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Political scientists. |
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France. |
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Politics and government. |
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HISTORY -- World. |
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Interviews.
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Schlegel, Jean-Louis, interviewer.
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Delogu, Christopher Jon, translator.
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En quête de l'Orient perdu. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017033048
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roy, Olivier, 1949- En quête de l'Orient perdu. English. In search of the lost Orient. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] 9780231179348 (DLC) 2017003802 (OCoLC)991585110 |
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9780231542036 (electronic book) |
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0231542038 (electronic book) |
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9780231179348 |
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0231179340 |
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