Rémi Brague: Islam is Above All a Legal Religion
31st March 2026
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler is a French anthropologist who specializes in scholarly research on Islam. She is the author of Les Sens du halal : une norme dans un marché mondial (The senses of halal : a standard in a global market) and Le Marché halal : ou l’invention d’une tradition (The Halal Market : or the invention of a tradition). Her most recent book is Le Frérisme et Ses Reseaux, l’Enquête (The Brotherhood and its Networks : An Investigation). Her work has earned the enmity of Muslims, to the point that she has to live under police protection.
Rémi Brague is a French historian and professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne. He is one of the world’s pre-eminent experts on Sharia law and the history of Islam.