The History of the Maghrib : : An Interpretive Essay / / Abdallah Laroui.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Laroui, Abdallah,
• TeilnehmendeR: Manheim, Ralph.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East ; 1418
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (442 p.)

This survey of North African history challenges both conventional attitudes toward North Africa and previously published histories written from the point of view of Western scholarship. The book aims, in Professor Laroui's words, "to give from within a decolonized vision of North African history just as the present leaders of the Maghrib are trying to modernize the economic and social structure of the country."The text is divided into four parts: the origins of the Islamic conquest; the stages of Islamization; the breakdown of central authority from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries; and the advent of colonial rule. Drawing on the methods of sociology and political science as well as traditional and modern historical approaches, the author stresses the evolution marked by these four stages and the internal forces that affected it. Until now, the author contends, North African history has been written either by colonial administrators and politicians concerned to defend foreign rule, or by nationalist ideologues. Both used an old-fashioned historiography, he asserts, focusing on political events, dynastic conflicts, and theological controversies. Here, Abdallah Laroui seeks to present the viewpoint of a Maghribi concerning the history of his own country, and to relate this history to the present structure of the region.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. The Maghrib under Domination -- 1. The Search for Origins -- 2. Colonizer Follows Colonizer -- 3. Conqueror Succeeds Conqueror -- 4. The Winning of Autonomy -- PART II. The Imperial Maghrib -- Introduction -- 5. Islam and Commerce: The Ninth Century -- 6. Eastern Forces for Unity: The Fatimid and Zrrid Ventures -- 7. Western Forces for Unity: The Almoravid Venture -- 8. Western Forces for Unity: The Almohad Venture -- 9. The Failure of the Imperial Idea -- PART III. Institutional Stagnation -- 10. The Western Crusade -- 11. Two Reactions, Two Powers -- 12. The Eve of Foreign Intervention -- PART IV. The Colonial Maghrib -- Introduction -- 13. Colonial Pressure and Primary Resistance -- 14. The Triumph of Colonialism -- 15. The Renascent Maghrib -- Conclusion Heritage and Recovery -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index