North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World

From the Almoravids to the Algerian War

Julia Clancy-Smith

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781135312138
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Long regarded as the preserve of French scholars and Francophone audiences due to its significance to France's colonial empire, North Africa is increasingly recognized for its own singular importance as a crossover region. Situated where Islamic, Mediterranean, African, and European histories intersect, the Maghrib has long acted as a cultural conduit, mediator and broker. From the medieval era, when the oasis of Sijilmasa in the Moroccan wilderness funnelled caravan loads of gold into international networks, through the 16th century when two superpowers, the Ottomans and the Spanish Hapsburgs, battled for mastery of the Mediterranean along the North African frontier, and well into the 20th century which witnessed one of Africa's cruellest wars unfold in "French Algeria", the Maghrib has retained its uniqueness as a place where worlds meet.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Liminal States: Morocco and the Iberian Frontier between the Twelfth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Trading Through Islam: The Interconnections of Sijilmasa, Ghana and the Almoravid Movement
• Re-Thinking the Almoravids, Re-Thinking Ibn Khaldun
• Maghribis in the Mashriq During the Modern Period: Representations of the Other Within the World of Islam
• The Mahalla: The Origins of Beylical Sovereignty in Ottoman Tunisia during the Early Modern Period
• The City and the Sea: Evolving Forms of Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism in Tunis, 1700–1881
• The Mediterranean Before Colonialism: Fragments from the Life of ‘Ali bin ‘Uthman al-Hammi in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• The 1907 Mauchamp Affair and the French Civilising Mission in Morocco
• Decolonising ‘French Universalism’: Reconsidering the Impact of the Algerian War on French Intellectuals
• Abstracts
• Notes on Contributors
• Index