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Author Burke, Edmund, III, 1940- author.

Title The ethnographic state : France and the invention of Moroccan Islam / Edmund Burke III.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 273 pages) : map.
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Series Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Imprint
Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint.
Summary Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, ""Moroccan Islam."" However, this pathbreaking study reveals that Moroccan Islam was actually invented in the early twentieth century by French ethnographers and colonial officers who were influenced by British colonial practices in India. Between 1900 and 1920, these researchers compiled a social inventory of Morocco that in turn led to the emergence of a new object of study, Moroccan Islam, and a new field, Moroccan studies. In the process, they resurrected the monarchy and reinvented Morocco as a modern polit.
Contents France and the sociology of Islam, 1798-1890 -- Algerian origins of Moroccan studies, 1890-1903 -- Political origins of the Moroccan colonial archive, 1900-1912 -- When paradigms shift : political and discursive contexts of the Moroccan question -- Tensions of empire : institutional contexts of research -- Social research in the technocolony : the colonial archive institutionalized, 1912-25 -- Berber policy : tribe and state -- Urban policy : Fez and the Muslim city -- Invention of Moroccan Islam -- From Moroccan Islam to the ethnographic state.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Islam and state -- Morocco -- History -- 20th century.
Islam and state.
Morocco.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Islam -- Morocco.
Islam.
French -- Morocco -- Intellectual life.
French.
Intellectual life.
Morocco -- Religious life and customs.
France -- Colonies -- Africa, North -- Religion.
France.
Colonies.
North Africa.
Religion.
Morocco -- History -- 1912-1956.
Chronological Term 1912-1956
1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781322076096 (DLC) 2014000842 (OCoLC)861955145
ISBN 132207609X (electronic book)
9781322076096 (electronic book)
9780520957992 (electronic book)
0520957997 (electronic book)
9780520273818
0520273818