North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World: From the Almoravids to the Algerian War

by Julia Clancy-Smith (Editor)

Overview

Long regarded as the preserve of French scholars and Francophone audiences due to its significance to France's colonial empire, North Africa is increasingly recognized for its own singular importance as a crossover region. Situated where Islamic, Mediterranean, African, and European histories intersect, the Maghrib has long acted as a cultural conduit, mediator and broker. From the medieval era, when the oasis of Sijilmasa in the Moroccan wilderness funnelled caravan loads of gold into international networks, through the 16th century when two superpowers, the Ottomans and the Spanish Hapsburgs, battled for mastery of the Mediterranean along the North African frontier, and well into the 20th century which witnessed one of Africa's cruellest wars unfold in "French Algeria", the Maghrib has retained its uniqueness as a place where worlds meet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714651705
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/01/2001
Series:	History and Society in the Islamic World
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction, Julia Clancy-Smith; Sijilmasa and the radiation of Islam to West Africa, Jams A. Miller; re-thinking the Almoravids, Ronald A. Messier; intimations of liminality - Morocco and the Iberian frontier between the 15th and 19th centuries, Kate Bennison; Maghribis in the Mashriq in the modern era, Mohamed El Mansour; La Mahalla - the origins of Beylical sovereignty in the Ottoman regency of Tunis, Dalenda Largueche; between centralization and cosmopolitanism - the city of Tunis in the 18th and 19th centuries, Abdelhamid Largueche; the 1912 Mauchamp affair and the French civilizing mission in Morocco, Jonathan G. Katz; reconsidering the impact of the Algerian war in French intellectuals, James Le Sueur.