INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. LIST OF TABLES xiii
5. TRANSCRIPTION OF ARABIC xv
6. NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS xvi
7. GLOSSARY xix
8. INTRODUCTION 1
9. 1. The Geographical and Historical Context and the Lines of Institutional Change 28
10. 2. Saintly Justice: the Majlis of Mascara, 1853-1856 43
11. 3. The Urban Milieu: Social "Decadence" and its Judicial Underpinnings 82
12. 4. Muslim Legists and the "Moral Conquest" 107
13. 5. Intervention and Crisis, 1854-1859 134
14. 6. From Crisis to Rebellion to Compromise, 1860-1866 165
15. 7. Those Who Succeeded 188
16. 8. Toward a Definitive Compromise: Politics and the Muslim Court Question in the 1880s 223
17. 9. The Aftermath: Algerians as Colonialists and Frenchmen as 'Ulama 244
18. CONCLUSION 262
19. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 275
20. ARCHIVAL SOURCES 283
21. BIBLIOGRAPHY 290
22. INDEX 303