Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco
Jessica M. Marglin
Abstract
This book presents a previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived. Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, the book charts how the law helped Jews to integrate into Muslim society—until colonial reforms abruptly curtailed their legal mobility. Drawing on a broad range of archival documents, the book expands our understanding of contemporary relations between Jews and Muslims ... More
Keywords: Jewish-Muslim relations, Morocco, Moroccan society, Muslim society, colonial reforms, Jews, Muslims
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300218466 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300218466.001.0001 |
