List Books » Jihad and It's Interpretations in Pre-Colonial Morocco: State-Society Relations During the French Conquest of Algeria
Authors: Amira Bennison, Bennison Amira
ISBN-13: 9780700716937, ISBN-10: 0700716939
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This book investigates the importance of waging jihad for legitimacy in pre-colonial Morocco. It counters colonial interpretations of the pre-colonial Moroccan sultanate as hopelessly divided into territories of 'obedience' and 'dissidence' by suggesting that state-society warfare was one aspect of a constant process of political negotiation. Detailed analysis of state and society interpretations of jihad during the critical period of the French conquest of Algeria clearly shows this process at play and its steady evolution in the context of increasing European pressure, which culminated in the imposition of the French protectorate in 1912.
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1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | The evolution of the sharifian jihad state of Morocco | 15 |
3 | French colonialism and sharifian jihad in Algeria, 1830-2 | 42 |
4 | An ambivalent alliance: Morocco and Abd al-Qadir's jihad, 1832-9 | 75 |
5 | The Alawi jihad during the French war to conquer Algeria, 1839-45 | 99 |
6 | The Alawi jihad against Abd al-Qadir, 1845-7 | 131 |
7 | Islamic statehood and jihad in nineteenth century Morocco | 158 |
Glossary of foreign terms | 166 | |
Notes | 170 | |
Selected bibliography | 190 | |
Index | 199 |