A professor at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy); he was previously a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a lecturer for both the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (IEP).
From 1984 to 2008, he has acted as a consultant to the French Foreign Ministry.
In 1988, Roy served as a United Nations Office for Coordinating Relief in Afghanistan (UNOCA) consultant.
Books in order of publication (In English and French):
Bibliography
Leibniz et la Chine. Vrin. 1972.
Afghanistan: Islam et modernité politique. Seuil. 1985.
L’échec de l’Islam politique. Édition du Seuil. 1992.
Généalogie de l’islamisme, Paris Hachette, 1995
The Failure of Political Islam. Harvard University Press. (1996)
Iran: comment sortir d’une révolution religieuse. Éd. du Seuil. (1999)
The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations. I.B.Tauris. 2000.
Les illusions du 11 septembre: le débat stratégique face au terrorisme. Seuil. 2002.
Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah. Columbia University Press. 2006
Secularism Confronts Islam. Columbia University Press. 1 January 2007.
La Sainte Ignorance: Le temps de la religion sans culture. Seuil. 2013-03-18.
Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State. Hurst Publishers. 2017-11-07.
In Search of the Lost Orient: An Interview. Columbia University Press. 2017-11-07.
The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms. Hurst Publishers. 2024.
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