Benjamin Bruce - Governing Islam Abroad: Turkish and Moroccan Muslims in Western Europe

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This book marks the end of a long journey that would not have been possible without a great deal of help along the way. I am deeply indebted to the many individuals who agreed to meet with me over the course of the last years and share their visions of Islam, identity, and politics with me. It is thanks to their time and hospitality that this book exists, and I have endeavoured to present their perspectives and opinions as faithfully as possible.

At Sciences Po, I am deeply grateful to Miriam Perier for believing in this project and supporting it from the beginning, to Alain Dieckhoff for accepting it in the Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. At Palgrave Macmillan and Springer Nature, thank you to Anca Pusca, Katelyn Zingg, Prathipa Raju, and Azarudeen Ahamed Sheriff for their professionalism and patience throughout the later stages of publication.

My research would not have been possible without a doctoral fellowship from the French Ministry of Higher Education, as well as travel grants from Sciences Po Paris, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies and Research on Germany (CIERA), and the Franco-Germany Youth Office (OFAJ). The nature of my subject has required a great deal of international travel, during which I have been very lucky to receive institutional support in numerous countries. In particular, I spent time as a visiting scholar at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) in the department of Ruud Koopmans, the Middle Eastern Technical University thanks to Zana itak, the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA) led by Nora eni, and the Centre Jacques Berque under Baudouin Dupret. My thanks go out to these scholars at each institution.

I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, whose guidance and encouragement have been key as I learned the ropes as a young scholar. My sincere thanks to all the members of my thesis committee: Jonathan Laurence, Olivier Roy, Matthias Knig, and Bayram Balci, whose insightful observations have made this book better and whose work has been an inspiration for me. A special mention goes to Victor Hori for having planted the seed for this research many years ago in a Montreal Buddhist Temple and to Jocelyne Cesari for giving me the chance to participate as a member of the website euro-islam.info . At my former research institute, the Center for International Studies (CERI), my thanks go to Christian Lequesne, Riva Kastoryano, Denis Lacorne, Elise Massicard, Stphane Lacroix, and especially Hlne Thiollet. Also at Sciences Po, I wish to thank the two semesters of students of my Euro-Islam course who challenged me to consider new perspectives and ideas on Islam in Europe.

As well, I wish to express my thanks to Nadia Marzouki for the invitation to participate in the ReligioWest Project, to Elizabeth Shakman Hurd for the possibility to speak at Northwestern University, to Marc Aymes and Nathalie Clayer for involving me in French national research agency project Transfaire , and to Lea Mller-Funk and Flix Krawatzek for bringing me on board their political remittances project. These moments of scholarly collaboration have been crucial in keeping this book project alive, relevant, and curious and have permitted me to explore new paths while not losing track of the road I took to get here.

This book could not have been written without the ideal working conditions provided to me by the Mexican National Council for Research and Technology (CONACYT) and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef). I am grateful to Jos Manuel Valenzuela Arce and Luis Escala Rabadn for encouraging my Old World research while I have gradually adapted to my new surroundings.

I owe a special debt to the following colleagues and friends: Nicholas Fescharek, Cihan zpnar, Alexandre Maouche, Myriam Aboutaher, Marie-Nolle Carr, Guillaume Grgoire-Sauv, Agns Lger, and Patrick Bruce; each one has contributed to making this book better in their own way. I am immensely grateful to Mara Teresa Ortega and Ezequiel Valdovinos for their boundless support and especially Ariel Valdovinos for all the lunches and neighbourhood walks. To my mother, Iris Bruce, and father, Donald Bruce: despite the distance, you are always there for me and only you two would be brave enough to read the whole manuscript one last timethank you. Of course, any and all errors are my own.