The Persisting Spectre of Cultural Decline: Historiographical Approaches to Muslim Scholarship in the Early Modern Maghreb
This article examines how historiography has interpreted the development of Muslim scholarship in early modern North Africa. It focuses on the continuing influence of what I call the “decline narrative” on both national historiographies and Western specialist studies. Elaborated in the context of Fr...
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Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
Year: 2017, Volume: 60, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 142-173 |
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Muslim scholarship
B Islamic literature B Intellectual History B historiography of the Maghrib B early modern North Africa |
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