Olivier Roy

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Olivier Roy (born 1949 in La Rochelle) is a French political scientist and a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has published articles and books on secularization and Islam including "Global Islam" and The Failure of Political Islam. He is known to have "a different view of radical Islam" than some other experts. He sees it as peripheral, Westernized and part of a radicalized and "virtual" rather than a pious and "actual" Muslim community. His most recent writings are about the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the November 2015 Paris attacks. Roy was born in 1949 in La Rochelle. He received an agrégation in philosophy and a master's degree in the study of the Persian language and civilization in 1972 from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris. In 1973 he worked as a high school teacher. In the 1970s he was active in the Maoist movement "La Gauche Prolétarienne" (Proletarian Left). In 1996, he received his PhD degree in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (IEP) in Paris.