State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change

Cover\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nList of Contributors\nPreface Benjamin F. Soares\nNote on Transliteration and Orthography\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: Shifting sands: State, society and Islam in the western regions of the Sahara Francisco Freire\nPart 1 State\n	1 A land of opportunities: Political morphologies at the northwestern Saharan frontier (1934–1960) Alberto López Bargados\n	2 A historical perspective on legal practices in Sahrawi society (1958–2019) Enrique Bengochea Tirado\n	3 Magnitudes of Sahrawi nomadism throughout colonialism and refugeehood Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín and Julien Lafontaine Carboni\n	4 The flexible use of democracy in an Islamic Republic: The case of the Mauritanian President Abdel Aziz (2009–2019) Elemine Ould Mohamed Baba Moustapha\nPart 2 Society\n	5 Artisanal gold mining in Mauritania Moustapha Taleb Heidi\n	6 Unsettling gender and feminism: Views from Mauritania Maria Cardeira da Silva\n	7 Funeral orations, the web and politics: The online making of national heroes in Mauritania and the Western Sahara in poems and songs Sébastien Boulay and Mohamed Ould Ahmed Meidah\n	8 Haratin activism in post-slavery Mauritania: Abolition, emancipation and the politics of identity David Malluche\nPart 3 Islam\n	9 On the (body of the) subject in the Sahara: Muḥummadhun Fāl b. Muttālī’s Fatḥ al-ḥaqq (nineteenth century) Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh\n	10 The past and present of the ghuẓfiyya Sufi order from the western regions of the Sahara Yahya Ould al-Bara\n	11 Islamic traditional schooling in a globalized context: A case study from the maḥẓara of Teysir (southwestern Mauritania) Mariem Baba Ahmed and Zahra Horma\n	12 Islam, blasphemy and realpolitik in Mauritania: The Mkhaitir affair Francisco Freire\nPostscript: Reflections on research ethics in complex contexts: Navigating politics, pragmatics and positionality Leonardo Villalón and Irina Branco da Silva\nIndex