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Jihad and Its Interpretation in Pre-Colonial Morocco: State-Society Relations During the French Conquest of Algeria

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Jihad and its Interpretation in Pre-Colonial Morocco: State-Society Relations during the French Conquest of Algeria - Bennison, Amira K.
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This book investigates the importance of waging jihad for legitimacy in pre-colonial Morocco. It counters colonial interpretations of the pre-colonial Moroccan sultanate as hopelessly divided into territories of 'obedience' and 'dissidence' by suggesting that state-society warfare was one aspect of a constant process of political negotiation. Detailed analysis of state and society interpretations of jihad during the critical period of the French conquest of Algeria clearly shows this process at play and its steady evolution ...

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Jihad and its Interpretation in Pre-Colonial Morocco: State-Society Relations during the French Conquest of Algeria 2015, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9781138869912

Paperback

Jihad and its Interpretation in Pre-Colonial Morocco: State-Society Relations during the French Conquest of Algeria 2002, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780700716937

Hardcover