Les Empires berbères: constructions et déconstructions d'un objet historiographique

by Mehdi Ghouirgate

Overview

This work compares medieval and modern Arabic sources relating to the Berber Empires (11th-13th centuries) with the way in which European studies have apprehended this topic against the backdrop of the emergence of orientalism and the expansion of France in the Maghreb.
Indeed, the invocation and then the study of the Berber Empires served to characterize a great Other of proximity : the Maghreb at once so close and yet so different. Studying this past therefore amounted to giving perspectives to this radical difference. In the context of the colonized and then newly independent Maghreb, this yet distant past never ceased to serve as a reference and as a framework for a "roman national" which aimed to give these States a solid foundation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783111023175
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	03/04/2024
Series:	Islam - Thought, Culture, and Society , #11
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	471
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	18 Years
Language:	French

About the Author

Mehdi Ghouirgate est Professeur à l’Université Bordeaux-Montaigne (Institut Ausonius) et affilié à l’Université Polytechnique Mohammed VI FGSES. Titulaire d'une Habilitation à diriger les recherches obtenue à l'EHESS, il est spécialiste de l’Histoire de l’Occident musulman aux époques médiévale et moderne. Il s’attache à revisiter cette histoire en s’appuyant sur une démarche résolument pluridisciplinaire qui fait appel, entre autres, à l’anthropologie, à l’économie, à la codicologie, à l’histoire militaire et à la démographie.

Mehdi Ghouirgate is Professor at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne (Ausonius Institute) and affiliated to the University Polytechnic Mohammed VI FGSES.　Holder of a Habilitation to direct research obtained at EHESS, he specializes in the history of the Muslim West in the medieval and modern periods. His approach to this history is resolutely multidisciplinary, drawing on anthropology, economics, military history and demography, among others.