Rousseau, les Lumieres et le monde arabo-musulman: Du XVIIIe siecle aux printemps arabes

What connection can be made between the Enlightenment and the construction of Arab-Muslim national identities and the independence movements of the Arab Spring? In a Muslim East doomed to be conquered from 1798, the Enlightenment and the 1789 Revolution are simultaneously objects of fascination and rejection.