Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean : : A Subaltern History / / ed. by Odile Moreau, Stuart Schaar.

• MitwirkendeR: Ben-Srhir, Khalid,; Blili, Leïla,; Burke, Edmund,; Clancy-Smith, Julia,; Makhlouf, Sanaa,; Moreau, Odile,; Rollman, Wilfrid,; Schaar, Stuart,; Yılmaz, Şuhnaz,
• TeilnehmendeR: Burke, Edmund, Edmund, III.
• HerausgeberIn: Moreau, Odile,; Schaar, Stuart,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Subaltern studies, the study of non-elite or underrepresented people, have revolutionized the writing of Middle Eastern history. Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean represents the next step in this transformation. The book explores the lives of eleven nonconformists who became agen...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Trajectories of Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean
• PART I
• 1. The Life of Boubeker El-Ghanjaoui: From a Cameleer to a Wealthy Notable in Precolonial Morocco, 1870–1905
• 2. Aref Taher Bey: An Ottoman Military Instructor Bridging the Maghreb and the Ottoman Mediterranean
• 3. Nazli Hanem, Kmar Bayya, and Khiriya Bin Ayyad: Three Women Living between Istanbul, Cairo, and Tunis in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
• 4. Servant, Officer, and Resistance Fighter: The Autobiography of Qaʾid al-Raha al-Najim al-Akhsassi (1867/68–1964)
• 5. Little Known Roots of Islamism: al-Kawakibi’s Umm al-Qura
• PART II
• 6. Revisiting Networks and Narratives: Enver Pasha’s Pan-Islamic and Pan-Turkic Quest
• 7. Going to School: Women’s Life Stories, Networks, and Education in Colonial North Africa, c. 1850–1962
• 8. Mukhtar Al-Ayari, a Radical Tunisian in the 1920s and His Place in Labor History
• Index