Muslims and Citizens

“Coller presents readers with a unique and compelling history that shows that the French Revolution was not for the French alone.”—Angela C. Haas, Journal of Church and State

“This book exemplifies the standards of . . . superb historical scholarship. . . . Ian Coller has given us an outstanding study.”—Larry W. Riggs, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century

“Groundbreaking. . . . Coller teaches us to question our own misreading of the Revolution and ask why we have failed to recognize that Muslims had been central to France’s revolutionary saga all along.”—Junko Takeda, Journal of Modern History

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