A fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France's largest and most important colony. Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire. Num Pages: 328 pages, 18 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJF1; HBLL; HBLW; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 644. . 2009. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . .

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Title: An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 (Critical Perspectives on Empire)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521516544
ISBN 13: 9780521516549
Binding: Hardcover
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An Empire of Facts presents a fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France's largest and most important colony. During the period from 1870 to 1914, travelers, bureaucrats, scholars, and writers formed influential and long-lasting misconceptions about Islam that determined the imperial cultural politics of Algeria and its interactions with republican France. Narratives of Islamic mysticism, rituals, gender relations, and sensational crimes brought unfamiliar cultural forms and practices to popular attention in France, but also constructed Algerian Muslims as objects for colonial intervention. Personal lives and interactions between Algerian and French men and women inflected these texts, determining their style, content, and consequences. Drawing on sources in Arabic and French, this book places such personal moments at the heart of the production of colonial knowledge, emphasizing the indeterminacy of ethnography, and its political context in the unfolding of France's empire and its relations with Muslim North Africa.

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George R. Trumbull IV is Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

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