Acknowledgments
It takes a village to write a book, and I am truly grateful for all the people inhabiting these pages.
For obvious reasons, my thankfulness goes first and foremost to the dozens of (anonymized) community leaders I have spent time with for this book, without whom I could not have written a single line. They gave me their patience and trust and allowed me to attend their activities and enter their classrooms. I am grateful to them all.
Houda Ayoub cultivated the seed of curiosity and care among her students and helped me to envision research as a horizon – this book is dedicated to her memory. Later, along the doctoral path, Michel Offerlé and Sara Silvestri graciously supervised my thesis on one side or the other of the Channel, while Johanna Siméant-Germanos and Iza Hussin were kind enough to examine it. My writing community also comprises the people who have read and commented on every stage of this manuscript – from when it was still a dissertation to when it began to resemble a book. In this regard, my gratitude goes to Valérie Amiraux, Elisabeth Becker, Elodie Druez, Lucas Faure, Juliette Galonnier, Vincent Geisser, Philip Gorski, Flora Hergon, Nadia Marzouki, Déborah Perez, Frank Peter, Clément Petitjean, Olivier Roy, Sylvie Tissot, and Mathilde Zederman. It also goes to John Bowen, Jocelyne Cesari, Marc Lynch, and Esra Özyürek, who kindly participated in a Project on Middle East Political Science book development workshop, and to Paul Seabright, who was patient enough to review the full manuscript. Style-wise, I took advantage of the acute editing of Perry Iles, Katie van Heest, and Linsey Hague and of the indexing skills of Michelle Brumby. Money-wise, the manuscript benefited from the funding of the Agence nationale de la recherche on several occurrences (ANR-17-EURE-0010 for the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, ANR-17-CONV-0001 for the Institut Convergences Migrations, and ANR-23-CE41-0006 for the “Socialisations islamiques” project).
I am also indebted to the fabulous colleagues and friends who accompanied me along the way, whether in Cambridge, where I learned the basics of the (doctoral) profession in great company thanks to Hira Amin, Alyaa Ebbiary, Chris Moses, and Amine El-Yousfi; in New Haven, where friendship helped me through the writing hardships thanks to Claire Demoulin, Chloé Folens, and Anne Guillard; or in Paris, where the Islams et chercheur-es dans la cité network taught me that research and the feminist ethics of care work well together thanks to Houda ben Hamouda, Jocelyne Dakhlia, Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Juliette Galonnier, Mariem Guellouz, Hanane Karimi, Nadia Marzouki, Sarra Zaïed, and Mathilde Zederman. Elsewhere, thanks to Jérôme Baudry, Hugo Bouvard, Sarah Eugene, Solenne Jouanneau, Fabrice Langrognet, Lauriane Mouysset, Zoe Purcell, Mikaël Schinazi, and Alexandre Sayegh. Naturally, the sparkling companionship of the Socialisations islamiques team has brought much to this book over the last couple of years thanks to Samir Abdelli, Sarah Aïter, Lucas Drouhot, Hamza Esmili, Juliette Galonnier, Diane-Sophie Girin, Jeanne Leblay, Younes Van Praet, and, last but not least, Karim Souanef.
Ultimately, at the center of my village stand Mathilde Zederman, my work buddy and fantastic friend; my big-hearted parents and brother, who always make me laugh; and Tancrède, to whom I owe more than words can express.
