The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan by Burke III Edmund

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By Burke III Edmund

on my own between Muslim nations, Morocco is understood for its personal nationwide type of Islam, "Moroccan Islam." despite the fact that, this pathbreaking learn unearths that Moroccan Islam was once really invented within the early 20th century by means of French ethnographers and colonial officials who have been encouraged by means of British colonial practices in India. among 1900 and 1920, those researchers compiled a social stock of Morocco that during flip resulted in the emergence of a brand new item of analysis, Moroccan Islam, and a brand new box, Moroccan reviews. within the strategy, they resurrected the monarchy and reinvented Morocco as a latest polity.

This is a crucial contribution for students and readers drawn to questions of orientalism and empire, colonialism and modernity, and the discovery of traditions.

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