"This book is important in helping shape the emerging field of Mediterranean history, which aims to overcome the pitfalls of nationally based histories. Taken as a whole, the book encapsulates, through the lively narratives of individual life histories, many of the important developments at a crucial moment in the history of the Middle East and North Africa." -- Daniel Schroeter, University of Minnesota, coeditor of Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa and author of The Sultan's Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World "This most impressive volume is an important contribution to our knowledge of the Muslim societies that it covers. Significantly, it should provide a most useful text for university teaching in terms of both the information provided and the methodological ground traversed." -- Kenneth Brown, founding editor of Mediterraneans journal and author of People of Sale: Tradition and Change in a Moroccan City, 1830-1930
Preface (Edmund Burke III)
Introduction: Trajectories of Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean (Odile Moreau)
Part I
1. The Life of Boubeker El-Ghanjaoui: From a Cameleer to a Wealthy Notable in Precolonial Morocco, 1870–1905 (Khalid Ben-Srhir )
2. Aref Taher Bey: An Ottoman Military Instructor Bridging the Maghreb and the Ottoman Mediterranean (Odile Moreau)
3. Nazli Hanem, Kmar Bayya, and Khiriya Bin Ayyad: Three Women Living between Istanbul, Cairo, and Tunis in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century (LeÏla Blili)
4. Servant, Officer, and Resistance Fighter: The Autobiography of Qaʾid al-Raha al-Najim al-Akhsassi (1867/68–1964) (Wilfrid Rollman)
5. Little Known Roots of Islamism: al-Kawakibi’s Umm al-Qura (Sanaa Makhlouf)
Part II
6. Revisiting Networks and Narratives: Enver Pasha’s Pan-Islamic and Pan-Turkic Quest (Şuhnaz Yılmaz)
7. Going to School: Women’s Life Stories, Networks, and Education in Colonial North Africa, c. 1850–1962 (Julia Clancy-Smith)
8. Mukhtar Al-Ayari, a Radical Tunisian in the 1920s and His Place in Labor History (Stuart Schaar)
Index
ODILE MOREAU is an associate professor of history at the University
of Montpellier in France and a researcher at the French National
Research Center (CNRS), Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF),
Paris.
STUART SCHAAR taught history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
and at Brooklyn College (CUNY) for nearly forty years.
"Together, [Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean's] essays highlight novel ways in which the members of colonised societies were able to oppose and subvert imperial power. They confirm that effective resistance could take any form and be mounted by anyone. It was not limited to dramatic acts or grand gestures." (Middle Eastern Studies) "[A] highly interesting volume…This collection joins a welcomed and renewed historiographical attention to the historical actor as an agent of sociopolitical change." (Mediterranean Historical Review)
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