Opposing aspects of colonial rule in this century to 1930: the unusual case of the Beni-Mzab

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Titre

Opposing aspects of colonial rule in this century to 1930: the unusual case of the Beni-Mzab

Créateur

Marks, J. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

1993

Dans

North Africa: nation, state and religion Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

P. 68: in the fifty years to the high summer of French rule in 1930, the Mozabites deserve a more intensive examination for their resistance to French rule. They were not, as French writers insisted, a docile group whose only interest was money: their resistance occasionally took violent form, but more often was skilfully articulated, using French perceptions of group politics to underpin efforts to save the group.
P. 60: one reason why the Mozabites seem to have been unusually successful in their campaigns against aspects of colonial rule was their very distinctiveness, which was exploited to gain advantages denied to other groups: they were Ibāḍīs, Berber speaking, Mīzāb is a geographically distinct region, they were economically distinct being for long the best-known and most dispersed group of traders in the country.
P. 62-63: often resistance to colonial encroachment focused on localised religious issues: for example preventing the building of a mosque in Ghardaïa by non-Mozabite Arab groups (see Chenaf 1962). In 1914 there was fierce resistance when the Pères Blancs planned to build a school in Beni Isguen (see Chenivesse 1902). Sul. al-Bārūnī, according to a French informant, seems to have promised the Mīzābīs to try to obtain full independence for them from the French.
Pp. 65-67: the conscription debate. See Omar Ben Aïssa Ben Brahim.
Lutaud, Ch.: (1916) Situation générale des territoires du Sud de l’Algérie pendant les années 1914 et 1915. Rapport d’ensemble présenté par Ch. Lutaud, Gouverneur-Générale. Algiers: Jourdan, 1916 (on www.gallica.bnf.fr (Dec. 2009)). P. 8: [the cities of Mīzāb] are hotbeds of false rumours and malevolent commentaries for France. [...] This situation seems largely due to the passage of the Turkish senator Sliman El Barouni in June 1914, which left deep marks in Mīzāb.

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Routledge Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Place

New York

Langue

eng

rédacteur

Joffé, E. George H. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

pages

59-69

ISBN

978-0-415-09162-6

Source

Fonds Martin Custers Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Ibadica Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Marks, J., “Opposing aspects of colonial rule in this century to 1930: the unusual case of the Beni-Mzab”, Routledge, 1993, bibliographie, consulté le 7 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/7042