The Ethnographic State
Subtitle: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Sep 10, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780520273818
Description: Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, Moroccan Islam. This book 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.
Notes: Source title: The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam