Forgotten Saints History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco

Name: Forgotten Saints History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco
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ISBN: 9780674035393

ISBN-10: 0674035399

ISBN-13: 9780674035393

Edition: 2009

Authors: Sahar Bazzaz

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In 1894, on the eve of the French conquest of Morocco, a young Muslim mystic named Muhammad al-Kattani decided to abandon his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Ten years later, al-Kattani mobilized a socially diverse coalition of Moroccans who called for resistance against French colonization.In 1909, he met a violent death at the hands of the same Moroccan anti-colonialists he had empowered through his activism. Today, the government of Morocco regards al-Kattanirsquo;s story as subversive, and he has virtually disappeared from the narratives of the early Moroccan anti-colonialism and nationalism. Despite this silencing, al-Kattanirsquo;s remarkable…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Publication date: 10/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Sahar Bazzaz is Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross.



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration and Spelling


Glossary


Abbreviations of Archives


Map of Morocco


Genealogical Table of the Principal Shurafa' of Morocco


Introduction: Remembering Forgotten Saints



Muhammad al-Kattani: Shaykh for a New Era



Debating Religious Power and Authority



Sufi Revivalism and Expansion of the Kattaniyya



New Contacts, New Horizons: The Kattaniyya beyond Fez



The Hafiziyya and Beyond



Silence, Not Absence: The Kattaniyya and the Politics of History


Bibliography


Index