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Contents Foreword by Rajae El Aoued ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Colonial Embodiments 1 Chapter 1. Healing the Body, Healing the Umma: Sufi Saints and God’s Law in a Corporeal City of Virtue 17 Chapter 2. Medicine and the Mission Civilisatrice: A Civilizing Science and the French Sociology of Islam in Algeria and Morocco, 1830–1912 51 Chapter 3. The Many Deaths of Dr. Émile Mauchamp: Contested Sovereignties and Body Politics at the Court of the Sultans, 1877–1912 82 Chapter 4. Frédéric Le Play in Morocco? The Paradoxes of French Hygiene and Colonial Association in the Moroccan City, 1912–1937 110 Chapter 5. Harem Medicine and the Sleeping Child: Law, Traditional Pharmacology, and the Gender of Medical Authority 142 Chapter 6. A Midwife to Modernity: The Biopolitics of Colonial Welfare and Birthing a Scientific Moroccan Nation, 1936–1956 174 Epilogue. Epistemologies Embodied: Islam, France, and the Postcolonial 209 Notes 221 Bibliography 279 Index 317 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

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