Ian Coller

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Ian Coller, Ph.D., is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Born in Australia, he previ-ously taught at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, Australia. His prizewinning book "Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831" was published in 2011 by the University of California Press. He is currently working on a history of the French Revolution and Islam.

Articles by Ian Coller

Rousseau's Turban

Rousseau's Turban

Written by Ian Coller
Late in his life, one of the most celebrated minds of the European Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, donned Turkish attire. It was a personal expression of the mobility between Western Europe and the Muslim world—and the new ideas these crossings engendered, which he articulated in writings that changed history.
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