Jihad and its Interpretation in Pre-Colonial Morocco: State-Society Relations during the French Conquest of Algeria

by Bennison,Amira K.

• ISBN13: 9780700716937
• ISBN10: 0700716939
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-28
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

This book investigates the importance of waging jihad for legitimacy in pre-colonial Morocco. It counters colonial interpretations of the pre-colonial Moroccan sultanate as hopelessly divided into territories of 'obedience' and 'dissidence' by suggesting that state-society warfare was one aspect of a constant process of political negotiation. Detailed analysis of state and society interpretations of jihad during the critical period of the French conquest of Algeria clearly shows this process at play and its steady evolution in the context of increasing European pressure, which culminated in the imposition of the French protectorate in 1912.

Author Biography

Amira K. Bennison is lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge where she teaches on the medieval Islamic West and the modern Middle East.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
List of abbreviations	ix
Note on transliteration	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
The evolution of the sharifian jihad state of Morocco	15	(27)
Historical antecedents	15	(7)
Sharifism and jihad in the early cAlawi sultanate	22	(11)
The sharifian jihad state on the eve of colonialism	33	(9)
French colonialism and sharifian jihad in Algeria, 1830-2	42	(33)
The French conquest of Algiers	45	(3)
The cAlawi occupation of Tlemsen	48	(10)
The revolt of the Udaya	58	(17)
An ambivalent alliance: Morocco and cAbd al-Qadir's jihad, 1832-9	75	(24)
Muhyi al-Din, cAbd al-Qadir and the Qadiri bid for power	76	(4)
The Qadiri-cAlawi alliance	80	(19)
The cAlawi jihad during the French war to conquer Algeria, 1839-45	99	(32)
The first mobilisations	100	(4)
The collapse of consensus and the rise of `fasad'	104	(10)
The Franco-cAlawi war of 1844	114	(9)
Peace with the infidel and jihad against `fasad'	123	(8)
The cAlawi jihad against cAbd al-Qadir, 1845--7	131	(27)
The cAlawi `nizam-i cedid'	131	(4)
The Sultan's `siyasa'	135	(7)
The sultan's `jihad of the tongue' against cAbd al-Qadir	142	(4)
The Makhzan's jihad of the sword against cAbd al-Qadir	146	(12)
Islamic statehood and jihad in nineteenth century Morocco	158	(8)
Glossary of foreign terms	166	(4)
Notes	170	(20)
Selected bibliography	190	(9)
Index	199