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1. Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World

   The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society

   Edited by Amira K. Bennison, Alison L. Gascoigne

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by architectural and textual historians and archaeologists, engendering exciting new perspectives on urban life in the pre-modern Islamic world. Its objective is to move...

   Published July 23rd 2009 by Routledge
2. Jihad and its Interpretation in Pre-Colonial Morocco

   State-Society Relations during the French Conquest of Algeria

   By Amira K. Bennison

   This book investigates the importance of waging jihad for legitimacy in pre-colonial Morocco. It counters colonial interpretations of the pre-colonial Moroccan sultanate as hopelessly divided into territories of 'obedience' and 'dissidence' by suggesting that state-society warfare was one aspect of...

   Published August 21st 2002 by Routledge