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History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period

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ISBN-10: 0521337674

ISBN-13: 9780521337670

Edition: 3rd 1987

Authors: Jamil M. Abun-Nasr

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Building on the two previous editions of his History of the Maghrib, Professor Abun-Nasr has written a completely new history of North Africa within the Islamic period which begins with the Arab conquest and brings the story up to the present day. He emphasises the factors which led to the adoption of Islam by practically the entire population, the geographical position of the area, which made it the main trade link between the Mediterranean world and the Sudan and led to its involvement in the confrontation between the Christian and Islamic worlds. In Morocco, this confrontation led to the emergence of a distinct religio-political community ruled by sharifian dynasties and, in the rest of…    
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List price: $85.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/20/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Jamil M. Abun-Nasr is emeritus professor of Islamic studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is the author of a number of books, including A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Periodand The Tijaniyya: A Sufi Order in the Modern World, and is coeditor of Law, Society, and National Identity in Africa.

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Preface
Glossary
Introduction
The Maghrib: land and people
Centrifugal and centripetal forces in Maghribi history
The call of the minaret in the 'West': the establishment of Islam in the Maghrib and Spain
The Arab conquest of the Maghrib
Arab-caliphial rule and the Berbers
Kharijite Berber rebellion against Arab domination
The Rustamids
The Banu Midrar
The Idrisids
The Aghlabids
The Fatimids and Zirids
Relations between the Andalus and the Maghrib, eighth to eleventh centuries
The Maghrib under Berber dynasties
The Almoravids
The Almohads
The Marinids
The Hafsids
The Zayyanids
Ottoman rule in the Central and Eastern Maghrib
Spanish expansion and Ottoman intervention
The regency of Algiers
Tunisia under the deys and the Husaynids
Libya under Ottoman and Qaramanli rule (1551-1835)
Morocco consolidates her national identity, 1510-1822
The Sadiyans, 1510-1603
Morocco dismembered, 1603-68
The Alawites, 1668-1822
The age of aggressive European colonialism, 1830-1914
The emergence of French Algeria
The Algerian settlers' path to victory, 1848-1914
Tunisia: beys, consuls, and financiers, 1837-78
Tunisia: the establishment of the French protectorate
Morocco at the crossroads, 1822-1912
Libya: an Ottoman advance post, 1835-1912
1919 to independence
Algeria between the two world wars
Algeria: the nationalism of the evolues
The Algerian revolution and independence
Tunisia: from anti-colonialism to nationalism, 1919-34
Tunisia: the Neo-Destour and independence
Morocco: the French and Spanish protectorates
Morocco: traditional elite and new aspirations
Libya: three entities in one nation, 1912-51
Epilogue: the Maghrib after independence
Bibliography
Index