The Power of Islam in Morocco: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives [Hardcover]

Chapter One: Moroccan Islam Observed / Chapter Two: Saints and Sultans / Chapter Three: Sharifian Sufism / Chapter Four: The Sanctuary (hurm) in Pre-colonial Morocco / Chapter Five: Sanctuary Immunity in Early Nineteenth Century Morocco / Chapter Six: Muhammads Birthday and the Ascendancy of the Prophets Lineage in Morocco / Chapter Seven: Hospitality, Charity and Legitimacy in Pre-modern Morocco / Chapter Eight: Maghribi Islam in the Mashriq / Chapter Nine: Moroccan Observers of Western Civilization / Chapter Ten: Salafi-s and Modernists in the Moroccan Nationalist Movement.The study of Muslim societies has been the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view from the outside rarely accounted for the complex reality of these societies. This volume by an eminent North African historian follows the development of Islam in Morocco as a social phenomenon over the last five centuries.

Mohamed El Mansour is senior professor of modern history at Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. He completed his doctoral studies at The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK (1981) and his publications include Morocco in the Reign of Mawlay Sulayman (1990) and Morocco Before Colonialization (in Arabic, 2006).

The study of Muslim societies has been for a long time the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view from the outside rarely accounted for the complex reality of these societies. This Variorum volume by an eminent North African historian follows the development of Islam in Morocco as a social phenomenon over the last five centuries. During this period the nature of North African societies and political systems was profoundly changed and shaped by the emergence of a new form of Islamic religiosity based on the glorification of Prophet Muhammad and the veneration of popularly acclaimed saints. From bl: