{"product_id":"state-society-and-islam-in-the-western-regions-of-the-sahara-9780755643479","title":"State Society and Islam in the Western Regions of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancisco Freire\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Lisbon, Portugal, and Researcher at The Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), Lisbon, Portugal.  He is the author of many articles and book chapters on Islam and the Sahara, including contributions to the \u003ci\u003eJournal of North African Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistory and Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern African Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis splendidly interdisciplinary and engagingly written book is a powerful contribution to a new understanding of Saharan modes of cultural change and continuity. Its brilliantly researched case studies, and insightful Introduction and Postscript, dispel diehard stereotypes of “immemorial” patterns and abrupt ruptures, and disclose innovation and transformational reappropriations of tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e * Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, Professor, University of Birmingham, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Soares, University of Florida, USA\u003c\/i\u003e    Introduction: Shifting Sands: State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara\u003ci\u003e, Francisco Freire, NOVA FCSH, Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e  PART I: State  Chapter 1: A Land of Opportunities: Political Morphologies at the Northwestern Saharan Frontier (1934-1960),\u003ci\u003e Alberto Lopéz Bargados, University of Barcelona, Spain\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 2: A Historical Perspective on Legal Practices in Sahrawi Society (1958-2019)\u003ci\u003e, Enrique Bengochea Tirado, NOVA FCSH \/ CRIA, Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 3: Magnitudes of Sahrawi Nomadism throughout Colonialism and Refugeehood,\u003ci\u003e Juan Carlos Gimeno, Autonoma University, Madrid, Spain\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJulien Lafontaine Carboni, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 4: The Flexible Use of Democracy in an Islamic Republic: The Case of the Mauritanian President Abdel Aziz (2009-2019\u003ci\u003e), Elemine Ould Mohamed Baba Moustapha, University of Nouakchott, Mauritania\u003c\/i\u003e     PART II: Society  Chapter 5: Artisanal Gold Mining in Mauritania,\u003ci\u003e Moustapha Taleb, NOVA FCSH \/ CRIA, Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 6: Unsettling Gender and Feminism: Views from Mauritania,\u003ci\u003e Maria Cardeira da Silva, NOVA FCSH, Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 7: Funeral Orations, the Web and Politics: The Online Making of National Heroes in Mauritania and the Western Sahara in Poems and Songs,\u003ci\u003e Sébastien Boulay, Faculté des sciences humaines et sociales de la Sorbonne, Université de Paris, France and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMohamed Meidah, University of Nouakchott, Mauritania\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 8: Haratin Activism in Post-Slavery Mauritania: Abolition, Emancipation and the Politics of Identity, \u003ci\u003eDavid Malluche, University of Bayreuth, Germany\u003c\/i\u003e      PART III: Islam  Chapter 9: On the (Body of the) Subject in the Sahara: Mu?ummadhun Fal b. Muttali’s Fat? al-?aqq (19th century), \u003ci\u003eAbdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh, Université de Lorraine, France\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 10: The Past and Present of the Ghu?fiyya Sufi Order from the Western Regions of the Sahara, \u003ci\u003eYahya Ould al-Bara, University of Nouakchott, Mauritania\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 11: Islamic Traditional Schooling in a Globalized Context: A Case-Study from the Teisir Mahadra (southwestern Mauritania),\u003ci\u003e Mariem Baba Ahmed, NOVA FCSH \/ CRIA, Portugal and Zahra Horma, NOVA FCSH \/ CRIA, Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 12: Islam, Blasphemy, and Realpolitik in Mauritania: The Case of Mohamed Mkhaitir, \u003ci\u003eFrancisco Freire, NOVA FCSH, Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e    Postface: Reflections on Research Ethics in Complex Contexts—Navigating Politics, Pragmatics, and Positionality\u003ci\u003e, Leonardo Villálon, University of Florida, USA and Irina Branco da Silva, NOVA FCSH\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018424549719,"sku":"9780755643479","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780755643479.jpg?v=1750776828","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/state-society-and-islam-in-the-western-regions-of-the-sahara-9780755643479","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}