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The Ethnographic State

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

The Ethnographic State

By Edmund Burke

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Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its national form of Islam, "Moroccan Islam." This path-breaking study, however, 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, which in turn led to the emergence of a new object of study, Moroccan Islam, and a new field, Morocc...Show more

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9780520273818

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2014

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1

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The Ethnographic State

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Hardcover

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