A history of the Maghrib in the Islamic period / Jamil M. Abun-Nasr.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Abun-Nasr, Jamil M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Africa, North--History.
• North Africa.
• History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 455 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Summary:

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 the Maghrib, to integration in the Ottoman empire. The political and economic developments of the 'piratical' regencies of Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, the establishment of European colonial rule, the nationalist movements and Islamic religious reform are all treated in detail. The balance between factual account and interpretation makes the book especially useful to students of African and Islamic history.

Contents:

• The Maghrib: land and people 1
• Centrifugal and centripetal forces in Maghribi history 11
• 2 The call of the minaret in the 'West': the establishment of Islam in the Maghrib and Spain 26
• The Arab conquest of the Maghrib 28
• Arab-caliphial rule and the Berbers 32
• Kharijite Berber rebellion against Arab domination 37
• The Rustamids 42
• The Banu Midrar 49
• The Idrisids 50
• The Aghlabids 53
• The Fatimids and Zirids 59
• Relations between the Andalus and the Maghrib, eighth to eleventh centuries 71
• 3 The Maghrib under Berber dynasties 76
• The Almoravids 77
• The Almohads 87
• The Marinids 103
• The Hafsids 118
• The Zayyanids 134
• 4 Ottoman rule in the Central and Eastern Maghrib 144
• Spanish expansion and Ottoman intervention 144
• The regency of Algiers 151
• Tunisia under the deys and the Husaynids 168
• Libya under Ottoman and Qaramanli rule (1551-1835) 187
• 5 Morocco consolidates her national identity, 1510-1822 206
• The Sadiyans, 1510-1603 206
• Morocco dismembered, 1603-68 219
• The Alawites, 1668-1822 228
• 6 The age of aggressive European colonialism, 1830-1914 248
• The emergence of French Algeria 249
• The Algerian settlers' path to victory, 1848-1914 263
• Tunisia: beys, consuls, and financiers, 1837-78 272
• Tunisia: the establishment of the French protectorate 289
• Morocco at the crossroads, 1822-1912 297
• Libya: an Ottoman advance post, 1835-1912 314
• 7 1919 to independence 324
• Algeria between the two world wars 328
• Algeria: the nationalism of the evolues 337
• The Algerian revolution and independence 342
• Tunisia: from anti-colonialism to nationalism, 1919-34 354
• Tunisia: the Neo-Destour and independence 360
• Morocco: the French and Spanish protectorates 369
• Morocco: traditional elite and new aspirations 382
• Libya: three entities in one nation, 1912-51 393
• 8 Epilogue: the Maghrib after independence 408.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: pages 429-439.

ISBN:

• 0521331846
• 0521337674

OCLC:

14242602