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Between Caravan and Sultan : The Bayruk of Southern Morocco, A Study in History and Identity
This work presents a study of the history and identity of the Moroccan Bayruk family. The first part of the book gives an outline of the main referents in both the Bayruk vision of 'self', and academic discourses on Maghribian history: the dynasty, caravan and 'tribe'. It identifies discrepancies in scholarly presentations of the Bayruk and traces them back to two overlapping issues of translation and conception. For the remainder of the book a variety of sources are used to highlight the role of textuality in the creation of the Bayruk image in academic discourse. As a result this book demonstrates how the Bayruk family can be used as a case-study to revise the existing interpretations of Maghribian history and modes of identification. -- Back cover.
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Between Caravan and Sultan
Using an ensemble of sources and current concepts, this book proposes new ways of conceiving the place of the caravan and the dynasty in Maghribian historical experiences and modes of identification.
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Mimosas
Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe’s stunning new film, Mimosas, is a breathtakingly-shot Western that follows a mysterious caravan transporting a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains.
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Sijilmassa: The Rise and Fall of a Walled Oasis in Medieval Morocco
Sijilmassa (A.D. 757-1393) was the North African head of the gold trade across the Sahara in medieval times. A synthesis of fieldwork undertaken by geographers, historians, and archaeologists suggests the environmental and social structure of the ancient city and its surrounding oasis. Collaboration demonstrates geography's role in solving regional problems originating in history and archaeology. In reconstructing the geography of past place and the demise of place, we knit together the oasis landscape and environment; local water resources, agricultural production, and social organization were key to the development of Islamic Sijilmassa. Drawing upon methodologies of oral tradition, field reconnaissance, remote sensing, historical documentation, and archaeological fieldwork, medieval Sijilmassa emerges as a Saharan entrepôt founded in Islamic heresy; a landscape developed through diversion of a desert stream; and a city that walled its oasis to protect against bedouin incursions. The process of urban growth and decline were driven by socio-political forces and the allure of new hydraulic technologies; the demise of Sijilmassa was a result of discordant social forces contending for the region. Sijilmassa remains an icon of sacred space in the landscape of contemporary morocco.
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