Forgotten Saints: History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco

by Sahar Bazzaz

In 1894, on the eve of the French conquest of Morocco, a young Muslim mystic named Muḥammad al-Kattānī decided to abandon his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Ten years later, al-Kattānī mobilized a socially diverse coalition of Moroccans who called for resistance against French colonization.

In 1909, he met a violent death at the hands of the same Moroccan anti-colonialists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035399
• ISBN13: 9780674035393
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.1"