The Power of Islam in Morocco: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781032177304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str.

Mohamed El Mansour

Opis

The study of Muslim societies has been the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view from the outside rarely accounted for the complex reality of these societies. This volume by an eminent North African historian follows the development of Islam in Morocco as a social phenomenon over the last five centuries.

Spis treści

Chapter One: Moroccan Islam Observed / Chapter Two: Saints and Sultans / Chapter Three: Sharifian Sufism / Chapter Four: The Sanctuary (hurm) in Pre-colonial Morocco / Chapter Five: Sanctuary Immunity in Early Nineteenth Century Morocco / Chapter Six: Muhammad’s Birthday and the Ascendancy of the Prophet’s Lineage in Morocco / Chapter Seven: Hospitality, Charity and Legitimacy in Pre-modern Morocco / Chapter Eight: Maghribi Islam in the Mashriq / Chapter Nine: Moroccan Observers of Western Civilization / Chapter Ten: Salafi-s and Modernists in the Moroccan Nationalist Movement.

O autorze

Mohamed El Mansour is senior professor of modern history at Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. He completed his doctoral studies at The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK (1981) and his publications include Morocco in the Reign of Mawlay Sulayman (1990) and Morocco Before Colonialization (in Arabic, 2006).