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The notion distinctive a 'European Islam' lie the securitised • Tariq Ramadan: A Voice for Decoloniality in France and in Morocco Abstract The dominance of social media has made religious authority temporary and fragmentised. Tariq Ramadan’s rise to fame in Morocco cannot be disconnected from the particular position he had in France as a controversial figure who spoke up for Muslims in many heated debates. Fieldwork in Morocco shows that the religious practices and points of view of fans of Tariq Ramadan bear similarities to those of youngsters in other countries. Although Islam is a shared interest, politics and postcoloniality play an important role in his popularity. The article demonstrates the importance of engagement with social, cultural and political issues as an indispensable constituent of authority, and argues that Moroccan fans of Ramadan are sensitive to the manner in which he criticises postcolonial power structures. The need to deconstruct neo-colonial structures and discourses is felt by French and Moroccan Muslims alike. In the 1990s, Swiss philosopher and activist Tariq Ramadan started to attract the attention of a large, mainly Muslim audience, but also of non-Muslim politicians and journalists, for his ideas about Islam in Europe. He first participated in public debates in France, but later b • Browse 1It is rather unexpected for a historian of the cultures of northern India to be asked to write a review of a book of highly sophisticated Western theology and philosophy for a journal of South Asian social sciences. The task, at first glance, looks impossible as a social sciences approach to such a book would, for instance, require locating it in the complex landscapes of contemporary Islamic thinking and of European Islam, and confronting it, in the context of ‘French Islam’, with such recently published volumes as Mon intime conviction by Tariq Ramadan (Ramadan, 2009), and Pari de civilisation by Abdelwahhab Meddeb (Meddeb, 2009). It could also mean situating it in Abdennour Bidar’s existential and intellectual itinerary, for which he has given keys in his quite original and much acclaimed Self Islam (2006). Mobilizing the tools of psychoanalysis might also prove rewarding for shedding light on the author’s undertaking. The present reviewer does not have the qualifications nor the required intellectual interest to do any of those. However, the Mohammed Iqbal of the book’s title is not unknown to me, as I recently wrote a lengthy article on the relations between Iqbal’s religious ideas and his various commitments in the affairs of his time in the Punjab, in Ind