Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:47:41 -0400
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From: Editor H-MidEast-Medieval James E. Lindsay
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Subject: North Africa, middle ages
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:16:56 -0400
From: Jeremiah Genest <wgenest@tiac.net>
I am hoping that someone will be able to recommend good books on the culture of Islamic North Africa between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. English is preferred.
Thank you.
Jeremiah Genest
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 10:07:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul Buell <pbuell@cc.wwu.edu>
Regarding bibliography on north Africa in the indicated period: I assume you are familiar with Mikel de Epalza, M.a Jesus Paternina, Antonio Couto, Moros y Moriscos en el Levante Peninsular, Alciante: Instituto de Estudios Alcantinus (Publicaciones del Instituto de Estudios Alcantinus, Serie I, Numero 86), 1983. Much in the bibliography relates to north Africa in the period desired. Paul D. Buell
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 22:04:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: S.M. Ghazanfar
<ghazi@uidaho.edu>
The following might be of interest:
Ivan Van Sertima (editor), Golden Age of the Moor; Transaction Publishers, 1993 (collection of papers; Journal of African Civilizations, Vol.11, Fall 1991). Several others available--Moorish Spain, etc.
Dr S M Ghazanfar, Professor & Chair
Department of Economics
University of Idaho, Moscow ID 83844-3240
Tel: (208) 885 7144 Fax: (208) 885-6296
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 14:04:10 -0400
From: BROWNH@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU
My impulse was to reply to your request, but it was so open-ended, it became difficult. Anyway, here are some titles culled more or less at ramdom.
Haines Brown
There’s so much! But here are selections:
Abun-Nasr, Jamil M.
A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period
New York
Cambridge
1987
0-521-33767-4pa $24.95
3rd ed. 1st ed. Cambridge UP, 1971; 2nd ed. 1975. Pp.455
$59.50/24.95 ’87. Books in Demand repr. of 2nd ed. paper
$108.00 (ISBN) 0-317-26070-7.
Barbour, Nelvill
A Survey of North West Africa
New York
Oxford
1959
Berque, Jacques
Qu’est-ce qu’une tribu nord-africaine?
L’Eventail de l’histoire vivante. Hommage Lucien Febvre
Paris
1951
Berque, Jacques
Structures sociales du Haut Atlas
Paris
1978
Brett, Michael
Ifriqiya as a Market for Saharan Trade from the Tenth to the Twelfth
Century A. D.
Journal of African History
1969 10 347-364
Brett, Michael
Problems in the Interpretation of the History of the Maghrib in the Light
of Some Recent Publications
Journal of African History
1972 13 489-
Brignon, Jean, et al
Histoire de Maroc
Casablanca
Hatier 1967
Brunschvig, Rober
t
La rie orientale sous les Hafsides des origines la fin du XVe siecle
Paris 1940-47
2 vols
Canard, M.
Les relations entre les Merinides et les Mamelouks au XIVe cle
Annales de l’Institut d’tudes Orientales
1939 5 41-81
Cresti, Federico
Quelques observations et ses sur la population et la structure periode turque (XVIe—XVIIIe cles)
Cah. Tunisie
1986 34 3-4 151-164
Daoulatli, A.
Tunis sous les Hafsides
Tunis 1976
Dufourcq, Charles-Emmanuele et
Maghrib du XIIIe au XVIe cle
Revue d’histoire et du Civilisation du Maghreb
1967 3 75-87lixe de l’Afrique du Nord. Les cles obscurs
Paris Payot 1937
Hess, Robert L.
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: A Twelfth-Century Description of
North-East Africa
Journal of African History 1965 6 15-24
Hoffman, Bernard G.
Structure of Traditional Moroccan Rural Society
Mouton 1967
0-686-22465-5 $38.70
Julien, Charles A.
A History of North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, from the Arab
Conquest to 1830
New York Praeger 1970
King, D.
A Medieval Arabic Report on Algeria before Al-Khwarizmi
Al-Masaq
1988 1 29-32
Lacoste, Y.
The General Characteristics and Fundamental Structures of Medieval North
African Society
Economy and Society
1974 3 1-17
Laroui, Abdallah
The History of the Maghrib: An Interpretive Essay
Princeton Princeton 1977
0-691-03109-6 $65.00
Latham, Derek
Towns and Cities of Barbary—the Andalusian Influence
Islamic Quarterly
1972 16 189-204
Lawless Richard I., Blake, Gerald H.
Tlemcen: Continuity and Change in an Algerian Islamic Town
London 1976
Ling, Dwight L.
Morocco and Tunisia: A Comparative History
Lantham MD University Presses of America 1979
Redman, Charles L.
Comparative Urbanism in the Islamic Far West
World Archaeology 1983 14 355-377
Redman, Charles L.
Qsar es-Seghir: An Archaeological View of Medieval Life
Orlando Academic 1985
0-12-584631-2 $24.95pa
Rosenberger, B.
Medievale marocaine
Arabisant
1987 26 29-43
Saad, Elias N.
Social History of Timbuktu: The Role of Muslim Scholars and Notables 1400-
1900
New York Cambridge 1983
0-521-24603-2 $54.50
Stambouli, F., Zghal, A
.
Urban Life in Pre-Colonial North Africa
British Journal of Sociology 1976 27 1-20
Terrasse, Henri
Histoire du Maroc
Casablanca 1949-50
2 vols
Valensi, Lucette
On the Eve of Colonialism: North Africa before the French Conquest
New York Africana 1977
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