Religion As Resistance - Negotiating Authority in Italian Libya

Religion as Resistance examines debates over the best methods for colonial rule in Italian Libya as a a self-reflexive process that tell us more about the contentious connection between religious and political authority in Italy than about Muslim North Africa.

List of contents

• Table of Contents


• List of Maps


• List of Figures


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Italian imperialism and Sanusi authority at the turn of the century


• Chapter 2: Crafting an Italian Approach to Colonial Rule


• Chapter 3: Occupation, War, and the Transformation of the Sanusiyya


• Chapter 4: Railways and Resistance: Idris al-Sanusi's Fall from Power


• Chapter 5: Religion and Power in the Fascist Colonies


• Conclusions


• Essay on Sources: Memories of Resistance in the Oral History Project


• Bibliography

About the author

Eileen Ryan is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Temple University. She has published articles in Modern Italy and the Annali della Fondazione Ugo La Malfa. She is currently working on an article on Italian settlers as refugees during the process of decolonization. This is her first book.

Summary

Religion as Resistance examines debates over the best methods for colonial rule in Italian Libya as a a self-reflexive process that tell us more about the contentious connection between religious and political authority in Italy than about Muslim North Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Eileen Ryan, Eileen (Assistant Professor of History Ryan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2018
• EAN: 9780190673796
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067379-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, African History, History and Archaeology, Libya