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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cyrille Aillet

Titel

De l’archipel berbère au Grand jeu saharien

Ist Teil von

• Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2021-09, Vol.149, p.169-194

Ort / Verlag

Université de Provence

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The settlement, conversion to Islam and economic growth of oases in the Northern Sahara are commonly attributed to Berbers who supported the Ṣufrī or Ibāḍī sectarian movements. Scholars often interpret this historic process through the lens of Max Weber’s theory on the relationship between puritanical sectarianism and mercantile capitalism. From the perspective of Ibadism, and while examining the places where this school was rooted during medieval times, this paper seeks to provide an interpretation of this Berber archipelago by connecting the local scale to the broader transformations of the Afro-Mediterranean area. Indeed, the effort to enhance oases settlements and develop these as a matter of hydraulic and agrarian infrastructure cannot be fully understood without considering the global political and economic context.