Liauzu, Claude <br/><br/>
Muslim Societies in Elisée Reclus' Work 

 -  2005.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Elisée Reclus is a contemporary of the great period of imperialist expansion: he was born in 1830, the year of the arrival of the French troops in Algeria, with Greece having recently obtained its independence, and he died in 1905, the year of the war between Russia and Japan. But to read him today is to be receptive to a work that sought to present the world in its spatial immensity and with the weight of its history, seeking to detach itself from forces of its contradicting unification. In this early twenty-first century, and the western world’s obsession with Islam, this statement raises the question of its place in this geographical culture. Is it necessary to remind the world that these places are still hot spots?