Historiographie et légende au Maghreb : la Kâhina ou la production d'une mémoire - article ; n°3 ; vol.54, pg 667-686

Abdelmajid Hannoum

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales - Année 1999 - Volume 54 - Numéro 3 - Pages 667-686
Historiography and legends in the Maghreb : the legend of the Kahina and the making of memory. HANNOUM. This paper investigates the making of the legend of the Kahina -the Berber queen who allegedly led the local resistance against the Arab conquest in the late seventh century -from its early manifestations in the late ninth century until the early nine teenth century. By analyzing the early manifestations of the legend argue that the legend passed gradually from folklore to historiography from social memory to historical memory. The paper also explains the development of the legend how it first contained the ideology of the Jihad and then by the eleventh century with the integration of North Africa in the larger Islamic community served to articulate the supposedly Oriental origins of the Maghreb. By the fourteenth century the legend was complete and in addition to the Eastern origin of the Berber it has come to articulate the myth of the Berber acceptance of Islam. Moreover from that time onward the legend has become myth of origin explaining how North Africa has been Arabized and Islamized by the cooperation of the Berbers themselves.
20 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: ANNALES_D-HISTOIRE_ECONOMIQUE_ET_SOCIALE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1999
• Nombre de lectures: 55
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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