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An Empire of Facts - Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
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An Empire of Facts - Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
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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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