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On Recomposing the Islamic History of North Africa: A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

John Wansbrough
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The decolonization of history in the Islamic world has for a number of years proved a fascinating and profitable pursuit. For that portion of North Africa occupied by the French this process has consisted for the most part of two more or less separate activities: studies in depth and detail for the period after 1830, and for the preceding centuries (700-1830) a number of very general and frequently superficial recommendations, reflecting a sincere but not always clearly planned intention to controvert the presuppositions seen to underly colonialist historiography.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 101 , Issue 2 , April 1969 , pp. 161 - 170
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1969

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