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Ethnographic State : France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam

Paperback • 2015 • English

Ethnographic State : France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam

By Edmund Burke

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About the book

Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, 'Moroccan Islam'. However, this study reveals that Moroccan Islam was actually invented in the early twentieth century by French ethnographers and colonial officers who were influenced by British colonial practices in India. Between 1900 and 1920, these researchers compiled a social inventory of Morocco that in turn led to the emergence of a new object of study, Moroccan Islam, and a new field, Moroccan studies. I...Show more

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9781322076096

Publisher

Berkeley : : University of California Press,

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

Ethnographic State : France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam

Format

Paperback

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