Preface to the English-language editionAcknowledgementsPrologueIntroduction1. The Republic Converts to Islam: The French Expedition to Egypt and Its Afterlives2. Giving Birth to the Universal: How the Colonization of Africa Secularized Europe3. Race and the Inconvertible: On Apartheid in North Africa4. Anatomy of the Fossil State: Geopolitics of Climate in Europe and Beyond5. Gospels of the Reich: Th e Eastern Question and the Jewish Question6. A Circle of Returns: Towards a Critique of ImperialityEpilogueIndex

Young philosopher and historian Mohamed Amer Meziane, in his recently published book, argues that Europe, and France specifically, give themselves credit for having modernized during the 19th century. But this was the period of France's imperial adventures in the Muslim world, which - not coincidentally, he powerfully argues - racialized the concept of "religiosity," rendering it "uncivilized."

A revolutionary book, acclaimed by prominent figures.,He is the author of many articles published in both French and English and is considered by major intellectual figures (Balibar, Diagne, Stoler) as one of the most promising thinkers of his generation.,Endorsements from Ann Stoler, Judith Surkis, Etienne Balibar. and Andreas Malm,Author was at Columbia University for four years and is now Assistant Professor at Brown University Influential in American Academy, has a readership in South Asia, is already a Public intellectual in France and has networks in Europe (Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium) Intervenes in the art world worldwide (recently at the International Fair of Paris, soon at the Sursock in Beirut),The subject is on trend right now both because of its connection to decolonial questions and its original way of tackling the question of the Anthropocene. The connection between race and ecology is especially on trend and the fact of emphasizing the role of orientalism and the racialization of Islam makes it both new and timely, specific and broad.