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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 polity.
This is an important contribution for scholars and readers interested in questions of orientalism and empire, colonialism and modernity, and the invention of traditions.
This is an important contribution for scholars and readers interested in questions of orientalism and empire, colonialism and modernity, and the invention of traditions.
Price: $49.95
Pages: 288
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
10 September 2014
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520273818
Format: Hardcover
"4/5 . . . Highly engaging."
— Kevin Winter
"La composition brillamment dégagée par l’auteur." ("Brilliantly clear composition by the author.")
— Mehdi Sakatni
"The Ethnographic State is a significant contribution to Moroccan studies and to the history of imperialism in North Africa. . . . For students of Morocco, Burke’s work is critical."
"Written with verve and wit, Edmund Burke’s The Ethnographic State displays the deep erudition that has marked the author’s career. Clearly in tune with the murmuring currents of change in Morocco today, Burke closes the book with the tantalizing line, 'The invention of Moroccan Islam and its successive transformations led to the forging of a powerful political discourse that still has currency. But for how much longer?'"
"The Ethnographic State provides an insightful overview of the creation and institutionalization of a national practice of Islam within a colonial context. Burke’s detailed research on the formation of Moroccan Islam and the role of French scholarship on colonial policies will impact scholarship on Islam, colonialism, and state formation."
"A welcome addition to the growing literature on French colonial knowledge... a tour de force in terms of its breadth and depth, its synthesis of anglophone and francophone scholarship, and, last but not least, its splendid erudition lightly worn."
Edmund Burke III is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author or editor of many works, including Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (UC Press).
Acknowledgments
Map
Introduction: Inventing Moroccan Islam
PART ONE
ETHNOGRAPHIC MOROCCO
1 France and the Sociology of Islam, 1798–1890
2 The Algerian Origins of Moroccan Studies, 1890–1903
3 The Political Origins of the Moroccan Colonial Archive
4 When Paradigms Shift: Political and Discursive Contexts of the Moroccan Question
5 Tensions of Empire, 1900–1912
PART TWO
NATIVE POLICY MOROCCO
6 Social Research in the Technocolony, 1912–1925
7 Berber Policy: Tribe and State
8 Urban Policy: Fez and the Muslim City
PART THREE
GOVERNMENTAL MOROCCO
9 The Invention of Moroccan Islam
10 From the Ethnographic State to Moroccan Islam
Abbreviations
Notes
A Note on Sources
Bibliography
Index
Map
Introduction: Inventing Moroccan Islam
PART ONE
ETHNOGRAPHIC MOROCCO
1 France and the Sociology of Islam, 1798–1890
2 The Algerian Origins of Moroccan Studies, 1890–1903
3 The Political Origins of the Moroccan Colonial Archive
4 When Paradigms Shift: Political and Discursive Contexts of the Moroccan Question
5 Tensions of Empire, 1900–1912
PART TWO
NATIVE POLICY MOROCCO
6 Social Research in the Technocolony, 1912–1925
7 Berber Policy: Tribe and State
8 Urban Policy: Fez and the Muslim City
PART THREE
GOVERNMENTAL MOROCCO
9 The Invention of Moroccan Islam
10 From the Ethnographic State to Moroccan Islam
Abbreviations
Notes
A Note on Sources
Bibliography
Index