1. "Louis Veuillot, based on a portrait by J. E. Lafon -1854." From Eugène Veuillot, Louis Veuillot (1813-1845) (Paris: Victor Retaux, [1899?]). Courtesy Bibliothèque nationale de France.

1. "Louis Veuillot, based on a portrait by J. E. Lafon -1854." From Eugène Veuillot, Louis Veuillot (1813-1845) (Paris: Victor Retaux, [1899?]). Courtesy Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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Sacred Rivals focuses on French Catholic ideas about Islam and Arab-ness—“Catholic orientalism”—in the context of religious culture wars in France and missionary work in colonial Algeria. Relying on research from ten different public and private archives, the book tacks back and forth between the way the stereotype of “Islam” was used and abused in...