The study of Muslim societies has been for a long time the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view from the outside rarely accounted for the complex reality of these societies.
During this period the nature of North African societies and political systems was profoundly changed and shaped by the emergence.
This Variorum volume by an eminent North African historian follows the development of Islam in Morocco as a social phenomenon over the last five centuries.
The study of Muslim societies has been for a long time the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view from the outside rarely accounted for the complex reality of these societies