Jihad And Its Interpretations In Pre-Colonial Morocco State-society relations during the French conquest of Algeria

• Main Author: Bennison, Amira K.
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London RoutledgeCurzon 2002; Routledge; Curzon
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Algeria > History > 1830-1962; France > Military relations > Morocco; Islam and politics; Islam and politics > Algeria > History; Islam and politics > Morocco; Islam and politics > Morocco > History; Islam and state; Jihad; Morocco > History > 20th century; Morocco > Military relations > France; Sharifian Ancestry; cAbd Allah; Young Man; warrior; Algerian Tribes; Drummond Hay; Makhzan Authorities; northern; islam; Rif Tribes; dar; Mawlay Sulayman; De Mornay; Makhzan Offensive; Abd Al Qādir; Tribal Notables; french; Religious Brotherhoods; Holy Warriors; sultanate; hay; Middle Atlas; Western Maghrib; French Conquest; holy; Holy Men; drummond; West Algeria; Berber Tribes; Sharifian Sultan; General Bugeaud; Abd Allah; consul; Northern Sultanate; Rifi
• ISBN: 1138869910; 0700716939; 9780700716937; 9781138869912
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203220573

This book investigates the importance of waging jihad for legitimacy in pre-colonial Morocco. It counters colonial interpretations of the pre-colonial Moroccan sultanate as hopelessly divided into territories of 'obedience' and 'dissidence' by suggesting that state-society warfare was one aspect of a constant process of political negotiation. Detailed analysis of state and society interpretations of jihad during the critical period of the French conquest of Algeria clearly shows this process at play and its steady evolution in the context of increasing European pressure, which culminated in the imposition of the French protectorate in 1912.