Olivier Roy (professor)

Olivier Roy ( born August 30, 1949 in La Rochelle ) is a French political scientist who deals especially with Islam.

Life

Olivier Roy came from a Protestant family and studied philosophy, Persian language and culture, and political science in Paris, including at the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales ( INALCO ). Since 1984 he has worked as a consultant to the French Foreign Ministry. In 1988 he was an adviser to the reconstruction program UNOC (H ) A of the United Nations in Afghanistan. In 1993 he was the representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE) in Tajikistan in 1994 and headed the local OSCE Mission.

Roy is research director at the National Research Centre (CNRS ) in Paris. He also teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ( EHESS ) and the Institut d' études politiques ( IEP Sciences Po ) in Paris.

Roy has written numerous books on Islam and Central Asia, particularly Afghanistan published. One of his early main theses is that the project of Islamism as a political ideology has failed. Instead, gains in the Islamic countries of the influence of Ibn Taymiyya and Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab, neo-fundamentalism, more and more space, the strut alone then to spread a puritanical version of Islam by proselytizing. Neo-fundamentalism is here a term that Olivier Roy has reshaped itself, and indeed published in his 1992 book, " The Failure of Political Islam (L' Échec de l' Islam politique ).

Works

  • Leibniz et la Chine, Paris 1972
  • Afghanistan, Islam et politique modernity, Paris 1985
  • L' Échec de l' Islam politique, Paris 1992.
  • Généalogie de l' islamisme, Paris 1995
  • La Nouvelle Asie centrale ou la fabrication des nations, Paris, 1997
  • Iran: comment sortir d'une révolution religieuse? ( with Farhad Khosrokhavar ), Paris 1999
  • Les Illusions du 11 septembre. Le débat stratégique face au Terrorism, Paris 2002
  • L' Islam mondialisé, Paris 2002 German: The Islamic Way West. Globalization, dislocation and radicalization. Pantheon, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-570-55000-1
  • German: The wrong war. Islamists, terrorists, and the mistakes of the West. Siedler, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-88680-884-7
  • German: Holy Ignorance: on the political dangers of uprooted religions, from the French by Ursel shepherds, settlers, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-88680-933-2
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