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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784575003321

Autore

Howe Marvine

Titolo

Morocco [[electronic resource] ] : the Islamist awakening and other challenges / / Marvine Howe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-029084-6

1-280-53450-8

0-19-534698-X

1-60256-694-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Disciplina

964.05

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Morocco

Morocco

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-403) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Return to Morocco -- Commander of the faithful -- Tour du Maroc -- The ever present past -- Protectors and wards -- The shadow of King Hassan II -- Society in motion -- Islamic revival -- The conflicting worlds of women -- Split identity -- Grappling with mirages -- Royal democracy -- Zigzags on the road to democracy -- The new society -- Saharan imbroglio -- Friends, neighbors and others -- Kingdom at the crossroads.

Sommario/riassunto

Presents a review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. It addresses issues and problems - equal rights for women and correction of economic and social disparities - and asks the question: can this ancient Muslim kingdom embrace western democracy in an era of divisions between the Islamic world and the West?