Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial by Julia A. Clancy-Smith

By Julia A. Clancy-Smith

Julia Clancy-Smith's extraordinary research brings us a amazing view of North African heritage from the point of view of the North Africans themselves. concentrating on the non secular ideals and political activities of Muslim elites and their fans in Algeria and Tunisia, she presents a richly exact research of resistance and lodging to colonial rule.

Clancy-Smith demonstrates the continuities among the eras of Turkish and French rule in addition to the significance of neighborhood ties between elite households in defining Saharan political cultures. She rejects the placement that Algerians and Tunisians have been always sufferers of western colonial aggression, arguing as an alternative that Muslim notables understood the skin international and have been really in a position to manipulating the large alterations taking place round them.

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