Moorish Literature Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore, and National Traditions

“…Starkweather -- Five Berber stories, tr. by G. Mercier and C.C. Starkweather -…”
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The Almoravid and Almohad empires by Bennison, Amira K.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Almoravids: striving in the path of God -- The Almohads: revelation, revolution and empire -- Society in the Almoravid and Almohad eras, 1050-1250 -- Economy and trade within and beyond imperial frontiers, 1050-1250 -- Malikism, Mahdism and mysticism: religion and learning, 1050-1250 -- 'The most wondrous artifice': the art and architecture of the Berber empires -- Conclusion…”

Muslim Spain reconsidered from 711 to 1502 by Hitchcock, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Iberian background -- The invasion of the Iberian Peninsula : the eighth century -- The establishment of the Umayyad state in al-Andalus : the ninth century -- Al-Andalus in the tenth century -- The eleventh century : a time of change -- Al-Andalus under the rule of the Berber dynasties -- The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- The fifteenth century : the final phase of Muslim rule in al-Andalus -- Conclusion…”

The Near West Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the second axial age by Fromherz, Allen James

State formation and identity in the Middle East and North Africa

Table of Contents: “…/ Sebastian Elsasser -- 7.Religion, Ethnicity, and State Formation in Algeria: "The Berber" As a Category of Contestation / Lisa Watanabe -- 8.The Free Patriotic Movement and Hizbullah Political Entente: A Paradigm Shift in Lebanese Identity and State Formation? …”