Olivier Roy (professor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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French political scientist
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Place of Birth: La Rochelle, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Olivier Roy (professor)
- Olivier Roy (born 1949 in La Rochelle) is a French political scientist, professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
- He has published articles and books on secularisation and Islam including "Global Islam", and The Failure of Political Islam.
- He is known to have "a different view of radical Islam" than some other experts, seeing it as peripheral, Westernized and part of a radicalized and "virtual" rather than pious and "actual" Muslim community.
- More recently he has written on the Charlie Hebdo shooting, and the November 2015 Paris attacks.
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