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Memories of Absence
There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today, fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish narrative in Moroccan history has largely been suppressed through national historical amnesia, Jewish absence, and a growing dismay over the Palestinian conflict.
Memories of Absence investigates how four successive generations remember the lost Jewish community. Moroccan attitudes toward the Jewish population have changed over the decades, and a new debate has emerged at the center of the Moroccan nation: Where does the Jew fit in the context of an Arab and Islamic monarchy? Can Jews simultaneously be Moroccans and Zionists? Drawing on oral testimony and stories, on rumor and humor, Aomar Boum examines the strong shift in opinion and attitude over the generations and increasingly anti-Semitic beliefs in younger people, whose only exposure to Jews has been through international media and national memory.
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Medicine and the Saints
The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise,Medicine and the Saintstraces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of medical encounters between the Islamic sultanate of Morocco and the Republic of France from 1877 to 1956.
Drawing on a wealth of primary sources in both French and Arabic, Ellen Amster investigates the positivist ambitions of French colonial doctors, sociologists, philologists, and historians; the social history of the encounters and transformations occasioned by French medical interventions; and the ways in which Moroccan nationalists ultimately appropriated a French model of modernity to invent the independent nation-state. Each chapter of the book addresses a different problem in the history of medicine: international espionage and a doctor's murder; disease and revolt in Moroccan cities; a battle for authority between doctors and Muslim midwives; and the search for national identity in the welfare state. This research reveals how Moroccans ingested and digested French science and used it to create a nationalist movement and Islamist politics, and to understand disease and health. In the colonial encounter, the Muslim body became a seat of subjectivity, the place from which individuals contested and redefined the political.
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Between Feminism and Islam
Morocco has two major women’s movements: the Islamists who hold shari’a as the platform for building a culture of women’s rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations’ framework to amend shari’a law. Zakia Salime shows how the interactions of these movements over the past two decades have transformed the debates, the organization, and the strategies of each other.
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Prelude to Colonialism
This study is a portrayal of Moroccan Muslims and Jews by European travellers, journalists, experts and diplomats from the latter half of the nineteenth century until the transformation of Morocco in 1912 into a colonial entity under French and Spanish protectorates. In this pre-colonial setting, we catch a glimpse of a traditional society and its gradual, albeit partial, evolution towards modernity among the Jews as well as an understanding of Europe’s economic, political and cultural penetration into the Sharifian Empire, which for hundreds of years preserved its independence when many Islamic societies capitulated to foreign domination. What were the major challenges confronted by Morocco in the pre-colonial era? Did Muslims and Jews conform to or reject modernisation brought by European culture? What were the socioeconomic conditions and the juridical status of the Jews vis-à-vis the Muslim majority? These are some of the main concerns of our investigation.
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Dotting Urban Spaces
This chapter argues that the study of spatial encounters between minority groups and the larger dominant societies frequently focuses on tensions between \"White\" veteran residents and new migrants, commonly treated as \"people of colour\". In this chapter, Levy lingers with people of the minority group who, even in the face of a massive migration of its members, stayed put. Therefore, the premise of the strangeness of the newcomer that often feeds suspicion, animosity, or fear is not present in those encounters. The minority group, the Moroccan Jews, and majority group, the Muslims, involved here have a millennium of shared history. Levy argues that this historical given consolidates a unique dynamic between the groups and that, as a demographically insignificant minority, Jews manage to establish cultural enclaves that enjoy surprising success. Although these cultural enclaves are aimed at coping with their inferiority, they allow this minority a sense of control over their encounters with Muslims. That control, within what they perceive as a menacing ecology, is attained by the basic logic underlying the cultural enclaves, which he terms \"contraction\". This term denotes two interconnected trends in Jewish life: a continuous demographic depletion and a tendency towards self-isolation and detachment from their Muslim surroundings.
This chapter argues that as a demographically insignificant minority, Jews manage to establish cultural enclaves that enjoy surprising success. To be sure, the French \"Protectorate\", the later reinstitution of a Moroccan monarchy committed to an Arab nationalism, and the establishment of the state of Israel a few years earlier all had immense consequences on the Jewish minority living in Morocco. Jews and Muslims have shared Maghrebi spaces since the seventh century, the times when Islam gradually invaded North Africa and met ancient Jewish communities dating back to approximately 300 bce. The fundamental solution to the tension between a strong aspiration for separation and the reality of contact lies in limiting the encounters with Muslims to strictly defined social-territorial areas where Jews estimate that they can gain control. The majority of Jews in Morocco and most of their community institutions are concentrated in the two middle-class neighbourhoods of Anfa and Bourgogne, in the midst of the urban cauldron.
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Playing for Control of Distance: Card Games between Jews And Muslims on a Casablancan Beach
As part of their effort to cope with their future dissolution as a diasporic community (due to a constant demographic decrease), members of the diminished Jewish minority in Morocco try to contain their relations with Muslims within well-defined and controllable sociocultural enclaves. In this article, I examine one such enclave--a private beach named \"Tahiti\"--where Jews and Muslims engage through card games. I argue that as non-serious and rigidly patterned behavior, card games offer a protective social frame, allowing Jews and Muslims to interact freely. Moreover the games provide Jews a legitimate opportunity to convey critical messages and to maintain an open dialogue with Muslims without feeling exposed to danger. These very constrained and controlled enclaves, however, also provide Jews with an opportunity to construct and underline strangeness in a society that has hosted them for two millennia. This strangeness in turn, fortifies the enclave's boundaries. [enclave culture, diaspora, religious minority group, demographic decrease, Moroccan Jews, Jewish-Muslim relations, card games]
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Marrakesh and the Mountains
Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, medieval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate a local and distinctly rural past into a broad, imperial architectural vernacular. In Marrakesh and the Mountains , Abbey Stockstill convincingly demonstrates that the city’s surrounding landscape provided the principal mode of negotiation between these identities.
The contours of medieval Marrakesh were shaped in the twelfth-century transition between the two empires of Berber origin. These dynasties constructed their imperial authority through markedly different approaches to urban space, reflecting their respective concerns in communicating complex identities that fluctuated between paradigmatically Islamic and distinctly local. Using interdisciplinary methodologies to reconstruct this urban environment, Stockstill broadens the analysis of Marrakesh’s medieval architecture to explore the interrelated interactions among the city’s monuments and its highly resonant landscape. Marrakesh and the Mountains integrates Marrakesh into the context of urbanism in the wider Islamic world and grants the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties agency over the creation and instantiation of their imperial capital.
Lushly illustrated and erudite, Marrakesh and the Mountains is a vital history of this storied Moroccan city. This is a must-have book for scholars specializing in the Almoravid and Almohad eras and a vital volume for students of medieval urbanism, Islamic architecture, and Mediterranean and African studies.
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The ethnographic state
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.
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