Morocco: From Empire to Independence

From back cover: "From the Strait of Gibralter to the snowy peaks of the Atlas Mountains and the windswept Sahara, this book captures a history as diverse and dramatic as Morocco's legendary landscapes and cities. Beginning with Morocco's incorporation into the Roman Empire, this is the tale of powerful empires, fearsome pirates, a bloody struggle against colonialism and an equally hard-won independence. It charts Morocco's uneasy passage to the 21st century, and reflects on the nation of citizens that is finally emerging from this diverse population of Arabs, Berbers and Africans. The story of a country at the crossroads of two continents, this history of Morocco provides a glimpse of an imperial world of which only the architectural treasures remain, and a profound insight into the economic, political and cultural influences that will shape the country's future." ********* Contents Include: 1 - Moroccan Origins [Human Origins * Geography of Morocco * Carthaginians * first Indigenous kingdoms * Rome * Mauritania Tingitana * The Baqates * Christianity * Vandals Y Byzantines] 2 - Islamic Morocco [Origins of Islam * Early Islamic State * Sunnis, Shi'is and Kharijis * Islamic Expansion into N. Africa * Berbers & Islam * Heterodoxy in N. Africa * Idrisids * Fatimid and Umayyad rivalry] 3 - Imperial Morocco [Origins of Almoravids * Almoravid Empire * Almohads - Rise & Fall * Ibn Tumart's movement] 4 - Tribal Morocco [Attempt at Empire * Religion and the Marinid State * Building Fez * Marinid Collapse * Wattasid Morocco * What the Collapse Meant] 5 - Sharifian Morocco [Rise of the Sa'dis * Sa'di Morocco * Battle of the 3 kings * Ahmad al-Mansur * Moroccan civil war * ideology of civil war * The corsairs] 6 - Alawi Morocco [Origins of the Alawis * Ismail * The Abid al-Bukhari * Building Meknes * Corsairing and Diplomacy * Economy under Mawlay Ismail * Ideological consequences of absolutism * Justified rebellion and civil war * Sidi Mohammed III * Mawlay Sulayman] 7 - Precolonial Morocco [The army * The financial crisis * European trade * Moroccans and Europeans * Rebels * The 'Big Caids' * The interlude of Ba Ahmad * Mawlay Abdul Aziz and the Act of Algeciras * The collapse of the sultan's authority * Mawlay Abdelhafid * The rise of French power] 8 - Colonial Morocco [The Protectorate * French colonial rule * Conquest of Morocco * Spanish zone * The Rif War * The French in control * Mohammed V and the nationalist movement * The northern zones * WWII * End of the Protectorate] 9 - Independent Morocco [Conflict over Power * Royal Power * Economic Crisis * The Coups * The Sahara * War in the Sahara * Popular Protest, riot and the rise of Islamism * Social Change * The Saharan war continued] 10 - Morocco: From Empire to Independence [Morocco, Israel and the Arabs * Adjustments to politics and the economy * Mohammed VI's Morocco]