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University of California Press
- The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of California Press
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 reinvented Morocco as a modern polity and resurrected the monarchy.
This book will be of interest to scholars and readers interested in questions of orientalism and empire, colonialism and modernity, and the invention of traditions.
This book will be of interest to scholars and readers interested in questions of orientalism and empire, colonialism and modernity, and the invention of traditions.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-x
- Introduction: Inventing Moroccan Islam
- pp. xii-18
- Part One: Ethnographic Morocco
- 5 Tensions of Empire, 1900–1912
- pp. 83-102
- Part Two: Native Policy Morocco
- 7 Berber Policy: Tribe and State
- pp. 128-145
- 8 Urban Policy: Fez and the Muslim City
- pp. 146-166
- Part Three: Governmental Morocco
- 9 The Invention of Moroccan Islam
- pp. 169-183
- Abbreviations
- pp. 201-202
- A Note on Sources
- pp. 235-236
- Bibliography
- pp. 237-260
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520957992
Related ISBN(s)
9780520273818
MARC Record
OCLC
889552181
Pages
275
Launched on MUSE
2014-11-07
Language
English
Open Access
No