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An Empire of Facts
- Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870–1914
Engelsk Paperback
An Empire of Facts
- Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870–1914
Engelsk Paperback

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An Empire of Facts presents a fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France''s largest and most important colony. During the period from 1870 to 1914, travelers, bureaucrats, scholars, and writers formed influential and long-lasting misconceptions about Islam that determined the imperial cultural politics of Algeria and its interactions with republican France. Narratives of Islamic mysticism, rituals, gender relations, and sensational crimes brought unfamiliar cultural forms and practices to popular attention in France, but also constructed Algerian Muslims as objects for colonial intervention. Personal lives and interactions between Algerian and French men and women inflected these texts, determining their style, content, and consequences. Drawing on sources in Arabic and French, this book places such personal moments at the heart of the production of colonial knowledge, emphasizing the indeterminacy of ethnography, and its political context in the unfolding of France''s empire and its relations with Muslim North Africa.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
328
ISBN-13:
9780521734349
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0521734347
Udg. Dato:
19 nov 2009
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
226mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
19 nov 2009
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