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| Title: | North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean world: from the Almoravids to the Algerian War |
| Editor: | Clancy-Smith, Julia |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 202 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History and society in the Islamic world (ISSN 1466-9390) |
| City of publisher: | London |
| Publisher: | Frank Cass |
| ISBN: | 0714651702; 0714681849 |
| Geographic term: | Maghreb |
| Subjects: | 1998 Islam history 1000-1999 conference papers (form) |
| Abstract: | This book is the product of an international conference held in Tunis in 1998. The conference addressed the issue of the Maghrib as a space where worlds have met throughout history, emphasizing its central role in shaping those encounters. The nine essays included in the book offer some of the latest research on North African history from the early centuries of Islam until the eve of decolonization. Contributions: Introduction (Julia Clancy-Smith) - Liminal States: Morocco and the Iberian frontier between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries (Amira K. Bennison) - Trading through Islam: the interconnections of Sijilmasa, Ghana and the Almoravid movement (James A. Miller) - Re-thinking the Almoravids, re-thinking Ibn Khaldun (Ronald A. Messier) - Maghribis in the Mashriq during the modern period: representations of the Other within the world of Islam (Mohamed El Mansour) - The 'Mahalla': the origins of Beylical sovereignty in Ottoman Tunisia during the early modern period (Dalenda Largučche) - The city and the sea: evolving forms of Mediterranean cosmopolitanism in Tunis, 1700-1881 (Abdelhamid Largučche) - The Mediterranean before colonialism: fragments from the life of Ali bin Uthman al-Hammi in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Edmund Burke, III) - The 1907 Mauchamp affair and the French civilising mission in Morocco (Jonathan G. Katz) - Decolonising 'French universalism': reconsidering the impact of the Algerian war on French intellectuals (James D. Le Sueur). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
