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On Abū Isḥāq Ibr. Iṭfayyish (Cairo), Abū ‘l-Yaqẓān Ibr. (Mīzāb), Hāshil al-Maskarī and his journal al-Falaq in Zanzibar.
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This paper discusses the role of North African Ibadis, Mzabis in particular, in movements of religious reform and nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It unravels the intellectual networks in which Mzabis had been integrated since the late nineteenth century and that spanned from North Africa to East Africa and Oman. Mzabis’ membership in such networks highlighted the reformist trends within Ibadism that led to a rapprochement with the other sects of Islam. This also consequently facilitated the assimilation of Mzab and of Mzabis into the nationalist movements of Algeria in which Mzabis played a leading and formative role. Sources include manuscripts from the Mzab valley, Mzabi newspapers and French archival material.
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This book examines the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the evolution of identity politics. Bridging African and Arab histories and giving a cross-national and cross-regional analysis of movements of religious reform, nationalism and anti-colonialism, its wide geographical coverage ranges from Zanzibar on the Indian Ocean through to Oman into the Mediterranean
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Abstract This article examines the significant yet largely overlooked role of the Mzabis, a community from the northern edges of the Algerian desert, in Algerian and Tunisian anticolonialism and nationalism. In so doing, it pursues two aims: first, to shed light on the importance of Tunis to the politicization of the Mzabis in the 1920s and to their induction into local and regional anticolonial and national movements; and second, to highlight the tensions of subsuming regional identities into overarching national identities by focusing on Mzabi political activists’ negotiation of the relationship between the Mzab and Algeria as a national project. The article also explores the spectrum of political possibilities and alternatives envisioned by Mzabis as they participated in religious reform, anticolonial, and nationalist movements. This spectrum, I argue, conveys the fluid relationship between local, national, and regional identities, thus undermining teleological readings of national identity formation.
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The area studies model is an impediment to the historical analysis of linkages and connections not governed by its geographical and conceptual boundaries. Its shortcomings are even more pronounced in the historiography of the modern period, when interactions and exchanges between different communities have changed dramatically, in both scale and scope. In the region loosely defined as the Middle East, the problem is further compounded by the collapse of the Ottoman order and the erection of state borders. The framework of methodological nationalism tied to those borders has been productive of certain kinds of histories and not others. In this intervention, Ghazal takes the case of Ibadis, their geographic distribution, political activism, and patterns of communication, to showcase the shortcomings of area studies as a model of historical analysis. A more viable alternative to spatially bounded analytical frames, Ghazal proposes, is the network.
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This article looks at the process through which the Ibadi Mzabi community in the Algerian desert "minoritized" itself during the colonial period, leading into the 1948 elections to represent the Mzab Valley on the newly created Algerian Assembly. This representation legally and effectively incorporated the Mzab into French Algeria and ended its special status as a French protectorate. Mzabi self-minoritization, Ghazal argues, was a process of performative differentiation based on a sectarian identity. It was initiated by the colonized and negotiated with the colonizer, emerging at the intersection of colonialism and the institutionalization of political representation in colonial Algeria. Ghazal defines this process as self-minoritization to attribute a proactive role for, and more agency to, the colonized in claiming a "minority" identity and negotiating a special status within the colonial order.
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