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 h...

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