| Description |
1 online resource (x, 273 pages) : map |
| Series |
Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Imprint |
| Contents |
France and the sociology of Islam, 1798-1890 -- The Algerian origins of Moroccan studies, 1890-1903 -- The political origins of the Moroccan colonial archive, 1900-1912 -- When paradigms shift : political and discursive contexts of the Moroccan question -- Tensions of empire : institutional contexts of research -- Social research in the technocolony : the colonial archive institutionalized, 1912-25 -- Berber policy : tribe and state -- Urban policy : Fez and the Muslim city -- The invention of Moroccan Islam -- From Moroccan Islam to the ethnographic state |
| Summary |
Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, ""Moroccan Islam."" However, this pathbreaking study reveals that Moroccan Islam was actually invented in the early twentieth century by French ethnographers and colonial officers who were influenced by British colonial practices in India. Between 1900 and 1920, these researchers compiled a social inventory of Morocco that in turn led to the emergence of a new object of study, Moroccan Islam, and a new field, Moroccan studies. In the process, they resurrected the monarchy and reinvented Morocco as a modern polit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Islam and state -- Morocco -- History -- 20th century
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Islam -- Morocco
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French -- Morocco -- Intellectual life
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HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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French -- Intellectual life
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French colonies
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Islam
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Islam and state
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Religion
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Islam
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| SUBJECT |
Morocco -- Religious life and customs
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France -- Colonies -- Africa, North -- Religion
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Morocco -- History -- 1912-1956. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001729
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| Subject |
North Africa
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Morocco
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
132207609X |
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9781322076096 |
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9780520957992 |
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0520957997 |
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