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Focusing on the the eastern Mediterranean area shaped by the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, this volume explores the nexus of empire and geography. Through examination of a wide variety of texts, the essays explore ways in which production of geographical knowledge supported imperial authority or revealed its precarious grasp of geography.

In 1894, on the eve of the French conquest of Morocco, Muhammad al-Kattani decided to abandon his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. In 1909 he met a violent death at the hands of the same Moroccans he had empowered through his activism. This book narrates his story.