Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] masterly reading that is undoubtedly necessary for understanding the history of the medieval and contemporary Maghrib, as well as for its anthropologists and philologists. It involves a lesson in methodology for approaching and reflecting on written sources, but also in maturity, critical thinking, and exposition of ideas. It is an update that provides a profound analysis of the historical term.
Inventing the Berbers has become perhaps the most up-todate work that has not invented the Berbers." *
Comitatus *
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Inventing the Berbers is an essential contribution to the history of the Maghrib, not only in the Middle Ages, but in our own time as well. It will, no doubt, be controversial, for it touches on issues of colonial historiography and ethnic definition that remain politically sensitive, especially in Algeria and Morocco. But Ramzi Rouighi's arguments are firmly grounded in the sources-and are overwhelmingly convincing." * Dominique Valérian, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
PART I. MEDIEVAL ORIGINS
Chapter 1. Berberization and Its Origins
Chapter 2. Making Berbers
PART II. GENEOLOGY AND HOMELAND
Chapter 3. The Berber People
Chapter 4. The Maghrib and the Land of the Berbers
PART III. MODERN MEDIEVAL BERBERS
Chapter 5. Modern Origins
Chapter 6. Beacons, Guides, and Marked Paths
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
