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Daniel Rivet, « Two Authors Look at the Muslim World in Crisis », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire, ID : 10670/1.b34a23...
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The events of 13 November had a major impact on my work as a historian of the Maghreb. Since that day, I have been called upon to talk about Islam not from the perspective of jihad culture, which runs through the societal history of the Muslim world, but with regard to the regime of temporality that governs present-day Muslims. I have draw upon two novels written at the end of the 20th century, which are The Book of Illuminations by the Egyptian Gamal el Ghitany, and Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by the Algerian Assia Djebar. Thanks to these two works, two different attitudes towards the passage of time emerge: time must either be understood as an achronic reality, where past and present merge in an eschatological perspective (Gamal el Ghitany), or the flow of time must be restored in order to act on the present moment (Assia Djebar).
