Jonathan Laurence - Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State

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THIS BOOK was made possible by research support and writing residencies from the Norway Research Council and the Fafo Research Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, the Jenesis Foundation and the Brookings Institution, LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, and the Centre dtudes et de recherches internationales at Sciences Po-Paris. Boston College sustained this project with a sabbatical year and provided funding for fieldwork and research assistance from the Office of the Dean of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Provost, and the Clough Center on Constitutional Democracy. The Burns, Bapst, and ONeill Libraries of the university provided crucial documentary assistance.

I am grateful to readers of early drafts for their thoughtful responses, especially Sid Tarrow, Ines Michalowski, Noah Dauber, Will Phelan, Wayne te Brake, Rahsaan Maxwell, and Nora Fisher Onar. I was extremely fortunate to receive critical feedback on the manuscript from two anonymous readers. A number of scholars helped refine my ideas, including Ruud Koopmans, Ahmet Kuru, Justin Vasse, Karen Barkey, Mark Lilla, Osman Balkan, Jytte Klaussen, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Lisa Anderson, Sheri Berman, Jose Casanova, Mohammed Hashas, Jesse Ausubel, and H. A. Hellyer. The team at FafoLillevik Ragna, Sindre Bangstad, Olav Elgvin, Marcel Maussen, Oddbjrn Leirvik and Jon Rogstadwere ideal colleagues to have at a formative moment in the books trajectory.

I was fortunate to try out the books material in recent years at seminars, debates, and conferences with audiences hosted by the American Academy in Berlin; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin; Mercator Stiftung; German Marshall Fund; the US embassies in Algiers, Brussels, and Rome; the Assemble nationale in Paris; the Ministry of Habous and Islamic Affairs in Rabat; the Directorate for Turks Abroad in Ankara; the cole nationale suprieure des sciences politiques in Algiers; the King Abdelaziz Foundation in Casablanca; Beit el Hikma in Carthage; the US Senates Aspen Congressional Program; the Ditchley Foundation; Harvards Center for European Studies; the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies; Princeton University; the College of William and Mary; the annual meetings of the Council for European Studies; Oakland University; Forum Saint Laurent; the University of North Carolina; Bilgi University, Sabanci University, and Fatih University in Istanbul; LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome; the cole normale suprieur and the Institut franais des relations internationales in Paris; the Universit libre de Bruxelles; the Catholic University of Leuven; the Junge Islam Konferenz in Berlin; and the European Council of Moroccan Ulema. I am grateful to my hosts and fellow participants at all of these events.