Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2012
Publication Title
The Journal of North African Studies
Volume
17
Issue
3
First Page
409
Last Page
431
Abstract
This article is the second segment of a two-part project that deconstructs Africanist conceptions of the origin of black Africans of the Maghrib. In the first part, I identified the textual threads linking Africanist discourses on Africans (blacks) of the Maghrib to abolitionism. This sequel is designed to accomplish two things. First, I will sketch a textual genesis for the twin concepts underpinning both the Africanist and abolitionist polemics: the notions of sensuality and miscegenation. Second, I will consider how this polemics measures up to pre-modern commentaries that lead back towards the advent of Islam at the Maghrib. Secularity, I argue, enabled Africanists not only to conserve what was, in essence, a religious discourse, but also to de-historicise black Africans of the Maghrib.
DOI
10.1080/13629387.2011.635450
Recommended Citation
Mohamed, Mohamed Hassan. (2012). Africanists and Africans of the Maghrib II: Casualties of Secularity. The Journal of North African Studies, 17 (3), 409-431.
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