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In the postcolonial era, Arab societies have been ruled by a variety of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on his native Morocco and building on the work of Foucault, the author of this text explores the ideological and cultural foundations of this persistent authoritarianism.

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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Foundations of Monarchical Authority and Forms of Exercise of Power: Toward a Redefinition of the Moroccan Political System 2: Dar-al-Mulk as Discourse and Practice of Power: The Cultural Schemata of Domination and Submission before the Colonial Conquest 3: Master and Disciple: Identifying a Historical Diagram and the Sources of Its Sanctification 4: The Colonial Elaboration of Authoritarianism 5: The Cultural Schema, Its Salience, and the Structural Tension It Mediates 6: On the Comparative Potential of the Paradigm Notes Index

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/1997
      ISBN13: 9780226315270, 978-0226315270
      ISBN10: 0226315274

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the postcolonial era, Arab societies have been ruled by a variety of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on his native Morocco and building on the work of Foucault, the author of this text explores the ideological and cultural foundations of this persistent authoritarianism.

      Table of Contents
      Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Foundations of Monarchical Authority and Forms of Exercise of Power: Toward a Redefinition of the Moroccan Political System 2: Dar-al-Mulk as Discourse and Practice of Power: The Cultural Schemata of Domination and Submission before the Colonial Conquest 3: Master and Disciple: Identifying a Historical Diagram and the Sources of Its Sanctification 4: The Colonial Elaboration of Authoritarianism 5: The Cultural Schema, Its Salience, and the Structural Tension It Mediates 6: On the Comparative Potential of the Paradigm Notes Index

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