Forgotten saints history, power, and politics in the making of modern Morocco
In 1894, a young Muslim mystic named Muhammad al-Kattani abandoned his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Through his activism, he mobilized a socially diverse coalition of Moroccans who called for resistance against French colonization. On a broader level, it...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA
Harvard University Press
2010
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| Series: | Harvard Middle Eastern monographs
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| Summary: | In 1894, a young Muslim mystic named Muhammad al-Kattani abandoned his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Through his activism, he mobilized a socially diverse coalition of Moroccans who called for resistance against French colonization. On a broader level, it offers alternative ways to understand the responses of Muslim societies to the challenges of globalization, European imperialism, and Western modernity while demonstrating that at the heart of anti-colonialism and nationalism lay a much deeper internal struggle over emerging forms of power and authority in the era of nation-state formation. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 180 pages illustrations, map 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-174) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674035393 (paperback) 0674035399 (paperback) |