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Subject(s)

• Political science [Browse]
• Africa, North—Civilization [Browse]
• Africa, North—Politics and government [Browse]

Editor

• Joffé, E. G. H. (E. George H.) [Browse]

Summary note

"This comprehensive Routledge Handbook on the Modern Maghrib introduces and analyses the region in its full complexity, focusing on the countries of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya, as well as the northern and western Sahara. In addition to country studies that provide historical and geopolitical background, a series of thematic explorations engage with a range of social, linguistic, cultural and economic aspects, providing a rich mosaic of current scholarship on the region. Addressing important debates such as the volatile international relations among constituent states, the role of women in society, and the environmental impact of climate change, the book considers natural resources, music, media and language, and revisits the history of borders and social tribal structures. What emerges is not only a variegated picture of the Maghrib as a complex and rapidly changing region, but one marked by stark contrasts and divergences among its constituent states based on their Ottoman and colonial experiences, their relationships with their Saharan and Mediterranean neighbours, and their own political trajectories. This Handbook fills an important gap in knowledge on a region increasingly significant in European and American affairs, and will appeal to anyone interested in the history, economies and societies of North Africa"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Maps
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• In Memoriam
• Introduction
• Part I Country Studies
• 1 The Maghrib before colonialism
• The Arrival of Islam
• Empires in the Maghrib
• Early Modern Empires
• The Origins of the North African State System
• Bibliography
• 2 Libya since 1835 and the Second Ottoman Occupation
• Second Ottoman Occupation, 1835.1911
• From Colony to Independence, 1911.51
• United Kingdom of Libya, 1951.69
• One September Revolution, 1969-2011
• Post-Qaddafi Libya
• Prospects
• References
• 3 Tunisia from 1830 and Ahmad Bey's modernisation
• Ahmad Bey's Modernisation Project
• Colonial Rivalries
• The Tunisian Constitution of 1861
• The French Protectorate of 1881-1956
• The Nationalist Fight for Independence
• The Bourguibist State
• The Women's Movement
• The Islamic Establishment
• The UGTT
• The Fall of the Corporatist State
• Ben Ali's Balancing Act
• Ben Ali's State Consolidation
• The 2010-2011 Uprisings and the Fall of Ben Ali
• The National Constituent Assembly and the Founding of the Second Republic
• The Rise of Nidaa Tounes and National Unity Government
• The Political Crises of 2019-2021
• The Return to Authoritarianism
• Notes
• 4 Algeria from the French invasion in 1830
• The Conquest of Algeria
• The Establishment of Colonial Algeria
• The Rise of Algerian Nationalism
• The War of Liberation (1954-1962)
• The Évian Accords and the Transition to Independence
• Algeria Under Ahmed Ben Bella, 1962-1965
• Algeria Under Houari Boumédiène, 1965-1978
• Chadli Benjedid's Presidency, 1979-1992
• The Civil War (Strife/insurgency/fitna), 1992.1999
• Abdelaziz Bouteflika's Presidency, 1999.2020
• Note
• References.
• 5 Morocco under the Alawites from the 1600s
• The Alawi State
• European Expansion and the Twilight of the Moroccan State
• The Colonial Era
• Independent Morocco
• Morocco in the Twenty-First Century
• 6 The Western Sahara
• The Western Sahara War (1975-1991)
• The Green March
• The Madrid Accords
• The Onset of War
• The Berm: Morocco's "Defensive Wall" and the Polisario's "Wall of Shame"
• The UN's Promise of a Referendum and the Subsequent Dispute
• The Creation of MINURSO
• The Houston Agreement
• The Baker Plans
• Unrest in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara and the Defrauding of the Tindouf Refugee Camps
• Algeria's and the Polisario's Defrauding of the Sahrawi Refugee Camps
• Gdeim Izik and the Arab Spring Protests
• The Essence of the Dispute: Sovereignty
• The Wider Dimensions of the Conflict
• The Relationship Between Morocco and Algeria
• Morocco and Algeria's Global Relations
• President Trump's Bombshell
• The Guerguerat Incident
• Moroccan Belligerence Crosses 'Red Lines'
• The Prospect of War Between Morocco and Algeria
• The Solution Obduracy of Both Algeria and Morocco Remains
• 7 Regional borders and the modern state in North Africa
• The Precolonial Situation
• Colonial Occupation
• The Creation of Colonial Boundaries
• Border Location
• Libya's Borders
• (a) The Ghat Region
• (b) The Aozou Strip
• (c) The Libya-Tunisia Border
• Algeria's Borders
• (a) The Tunisian Border
• (b) The Saharan Borders
• Morocco's Borders
• (a) Borders With Algeria
• (b) Spanish-Imposed Borders
• The Problem of Territorial Sovereignty
• Maritime Delimitation
• (a) The Libya-Tunisia Delimitation
• (b) The Libya-Malta Delimitation
• (c) The Gulf of Sirte
• (d) Libya and Turkey
• The Consequences
• PART II Thematic Studies.
• 8 The geography of the Maghrib: Resources, Demographics and Climate Change
• Climate and Rainfall
• Demographics and Food Security
• Mineral Resources and the Economies
• Population Settlement and Socio-Economic Development
• A Tentative Conclusion
• 9 Economy and society in the Maghrib after the Arab Spring
• The Mixed Success of Social Development in Morocco and Tunisia
• Pre-Independence and Post-Independence
• The Impact of Policy On Social Identity
• Modernisation and Class Formation
• Neoliberalism, the Normalisation of Economic Insecurity, and Political Resistance
• Conclusion
• 10 Women in the Maghrib: Legal, Political, and Social Context
• Morocco
• Algeria
• Tunisia
• Libya
• 11 Amazighité versus ʿuruba: Ethnicity in the Maghrib
• Who Are the Berbers? What's in a Name?
• The "Good Berber" of the Colonial Era
• The Arrival of ʿuruba
• Arabism, Amazighité, and the Shortcomings of Post-Colonial States
• The New Millennium
• 2011 - Whose Spring Is It?
• 12 Peoples of the Sahara
• The Arabs
• Arabs of the Algerian Sahara
• The Hassaniya-Speaking Tribes of Western Sahara and Mauritania
• The Arab, Hassaniya-Speaking Tribes of the Sahel Region
• The Moors
• The Tuareg
• Origins and Early History of the Tuareg
• Political and Class Structures
• The Spread of Agriculture
• Cultural Idiosyncrasies
• The OCRS and the Tuareg Under Post-Colonial Rule
• The Toubou
• The Toubou of Libya and Niger
• Harratin and Slaves
• Harratin in Mauritania
• Harratin in Colonial and Independent Algeria
• The Slave Populations of the Sahara
• Others: Mozabites (Ibadis) and Ineden
• Mozabites
• Ineden
• 13 Language policy and polyglottism in the Maghrib.
• Language Politics in Algeria
• Language Politics in Morocco
• An Ambiguous Future
• 14 The Maghrib musical scene
• Performed Religious Diversities
• Andalusi Histories
• Transnational Popular Music and Activism
• 15 The Maghribi multilingual novel
• Connecting the Multilingual Literary Field in the Maghreb
• The Anticolonial Novel
• The Decolonisation Period and Language Politics (1970s-1980s)
• The Postcolonial Period - Disillusionment and Internal Critique
• Post-2011 Arab Uprisings
• 16 SOCCER: Moulding the Middle East and North Africa
• Islam and Soccer
• New Heights
• Soldiers of Righteousness
• The Politics of Survival
• Platforms for Political Agitation
• A Soccer War
• Mounting Violence
• The Libyan Regime's Prestige On the Line
• 17 Judaism in the Maghrib
• The Jews of the Maghrib Under the New Islamic Order
• Maghribi Jewry During the Islamic High Middle Ages
• Maghribi Jewry at the End of the Middle Ages
• The Great Wave of Sephardi Immigration
• Modern Times and the Transformation of Maghribi Jewry
• Maghribi Jewry Today
• 18 Christianity in the Maghrib
• History, Geography and Ethnography in the Region
• The Arrival of Christianity in the Maghrib
• Christianity in the Roman Era
• Christianity as a Resistance From the Margins
• Christianity as the Religion of the Imperial Centre
• Christianity and the Expansion of Islam
• Christianity in the Colonial Context
• Roman Catholic Christianity in the Maghrib
• Protestant Christianity in the Maghrib
• Contemporary Christianity in the Post-Colonial Context
• Mauritania
• Bibliography.
• 19 The role of Islam in the Maghrib: Salafism, Islamism and Sufism
• Salafism
• Islamism Or Political Islam
• Sufism
• Islam as a Key Factor in Anti-Colonial Identity in the Maghrib
• Islam and Political Dynamics in the Post-Colonial Maghrib
• The Struggle for the Control of Religion
• Morocco: Salafiyya, Sufism and the "Commander of the Faithful"
• Moroccan Islamists: Tolerated, But Controlled
• The Sufi Factor in Morocco: Renewal and Increased Visibility
• Libya: The End of the Sanussi Monarchy and the Failed Islamist Challenge
• Sufism Under Fierce Attacks, Yet Resilient
• Uncertain Future for All
• Algeria: Religious Conservatism and the State
• The 2019 Hirak: A Movement for Regime Change Without the Islamists
• Algerian Sufi Revival, With a Political Dimension
• Tunisia: Modernization Caught Between the Left and the Islamists
• The Challenge to Tunisia's Political Islam
• The Islamists and the "Jasmine Revolution"
• Tunisia's Sufis: Lost in the Quagmire
• Conclusion: The Ambiguous Place of Political Islam
• 20 Political Islam and the challenge of participation in North Africa
• A History of Compromise
• An-Nahda and the Spirit of Concession
• The PJD: Compromise and Decline
• 21 Terrorism, chaos and conflagration in the Sahara and Sahel (2003‒2021)
• 'Terrorists' Kidnap European Tourists in the Algerian Sahara
• How the DRS Infiltrated the Terrorist Groups
• The Launch of the GWOT Into the Sahara and Sahel
• Creating Propaganda, 'Terrorists' and Chaos
• The Kidal Rebellion of 2006 and the Creation of US AFRICOM
• The Growth of Organised Crime and Drugs Trafficking
• The Resumption of Hostage-Taking
• NATO's Invasion of Libya and Its Implications for the Sahel
• The Tuareg Rebellion in Mali in 2012
• The Split Into MUJAO, AQIM and Ansar Ad-Din.
• The 2012 Islamist Incursion in Mali.

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ISBN

• 0-429-50535-3
• 0-429-99965-8

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