When Italian forces landed on the shores of Libya in 1911, many in
Italy hailed it as an opportunity to embrace a Catholic national
identity through imperial expansion. After decades of acrimony
between an intransigent Church and the Italian state, enthusiasm
for the imperial adventure helped incorporate Catholic interests in
a new era of mass politics. Others among Italian imperialists -
military officers and civil administrators - were more concerned
with the challenges of governing a Muslim society, one in which the
Sufi brotherhood of the Sanusiyya seemed dominant. Eileen Ryan
illustrates what Italian imperialists thought would be the best
methods to govern in Muslim North Africa and in turn highlights the
contentious connection between religious and political authority in
Italy. Telling this story requires an unraveling of the history of
the Sanusiyya. During the fall of Qaddafi, Libyan protestors took
up the flag of the Libyan Kingdom of Idris al-Sanusi, signaling an
opportunity to reexamine Libya's colonial past. After decades of
historiography discounting the influence of Sanusi elites in Libyan
nationalism, the end of this regime opened up the possibility of
reinterpreting the importance of religion, resistance, and Sanusi
elites in Libya's colonial history. Religion as Resistance provides
new perspectives on the history of collaboration between the
Italian state and Idris al-Sanusi and questions the dichotomy
between resistance and collaboration in the colonial world.
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