[lit-ideas] [Fwd: SPECIAL INVITATION: Olivier Roy - March 30, 8:00 AM]
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:45:32 -0500
For those who may live in this area and are so inclined...
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
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Subject:SPECIAL INVITATION: Olivier Roy - March 30, 8:00 AM
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The Carnegie Council presents:
A SPECIAL INVITATION
On March 30th distinguished French Islamic scholar, Olivier Roy will be
speaking at a breakfast program at the Carnegie Council. He will be
addressing such questions as "What is the future of Islamic radicalism?"
" Is it possible for Muslims to integrate into Western societies?"
Olivier Roy
Speaking on Globalized Islam
Thursday, March 30, 2006
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
The spread of Islam around the globe has blurred the connection between
a religion, a specific society, and a territory. Accordingly,
neofundamentalism has been gaining ground among a rootless Muslim youth
-- particularly among the second- and third-generation migrants in the
West -- and this phenomenon is feeding new forms of radicalism, ranging
from support for Al Qaeda to the outright rejection of integration into
Western society.
OLIVIER ROY argues that Islamic revival, or "re-Islamization," results
from the efforts of westernized Muslims to assert their identity in a
non-Muslim context. A schism has emerged between mainstream Islamist
movements in the Muslim world -- including Hamas of Palestine and
Hezbollah of Lebanon -- and the uprooted militants who strive to
establish an imaginary ummah, or Muslim community, not embedded in any
particular society or territory.Thus contemporary Islamic fundamentalism
is not a single-note reaction against westernization but a product and
an agent of the complex forces of globalization.
OLIVIER ROY is a professor at EHESS, the School of Advanced Studies in
Social Sciences in Paris. Among his books are The Failure of Political
Islam, The New Central Asia, and (with Mariam Abou Zahab) Islamist
Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection.
Please RSVP by replying to publicaffairs@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:publicaffairs@xxxxxxxxx?subject=Olivier Roy 3/30/06> or by
calling 212-838-4120.
Location: Carnegie Council, 170 East 64th Street, New York.
Non-members, $25. $200+ members, free.
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