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  • Publisher:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication date:
    03 March 2026
    30 April 2024
    ISBN:
    9781399520690
    9781399520676
    9781399520683
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    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, African History
    Series:
    Edinburgh Studies on the Maghreb
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, African History
    Series:
    Edinburgh Studies on the Maghreb
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    Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli examines the life and deeds of Thami al-Glaoui (1879-1956), and the multiple ways in which his story has been told. She investigates his biography as a creation continuing beyond the demise of its protagonist, asserting a conflation of history, story and storytelling. The book also reconfigures the story of major events and processes in modern Moroccan history and historiography.

    Thami al-Glaoui, leader of the Amazigh Glaoua tribe and Pasha of Marrakesh throughout Morocco's colonial era (1912-56), was the third most powerful person in Morocco, after the Sultan and the French Resident-General, by the 1930s. In 1953, he was a key supporter of the deportation of Sultan Mohamed V by the French. After recanting three years later, he was pardoned by the returning Sultan, but died shortly afterwards. In the four decades that followed, al-Glaoui became a synonym in Morocco for betrayal and corruption. In the twenty-first century, however, the ways in which he is told became more complex, and his reputation has been somewhat revised.

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