Michael Brett
Biographic Data
| ID | 91804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Brett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Brett |
| SIGNATURE | BRETT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6332-1755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Fatimid Empire
A complete history of the Fatimids, showing the significance of the empire to Islam and the wider world The Fatimid empire in North Africa, Egypt and Syria was at the centre of the political and religious history of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, from the breakdown of the 'Abbasid empire in the tenth century, to the invasions of the Seljuqs in the eleventh and the Crusaders in the twelfth, leading up to its extinction by Saladin. As Imam a…
Reviving the Islamic Caliphate in Early Modern Morocco By Stephen Cory
The book’s Introduction sets out to explain the importance of the claims made in the late sixteenth/beginning of the seventeenth century by the Saʿdī sultan Mawlāy Aḥmad al-Manṣūr al-Dhahabī, ‘the Golden Conqueror’, to revive the caliphate after the final demise of the ʿAbbasids with the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517. As the greatest monarch of the Saʿdī dynasty, which conquered and then ruled Morocco from the beginning of the sixteenth centu…
Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus: Ibn Masarra, Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Ismāʿīlī Tradition, by Michael Ebstein
First Paragraph: As its title indicates, this is a thesis which sets out to identify the many features of the mystical writings of the two Andalusians, Ibn Masarra (883-931) and Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165-1240), which they have in common with the mythical and Neoplatonic cosmogonies and cosmologies in the assortment of works from the late ninth and tenth centuries belonging to what Michael Ebstein calls the Ismāʿīlī tradition. His purpose is to demonstr…
The diplomacy of empire: Fatimids and Zirids, 990-1062
Over a period of some forty years, 380/990-421/1030, the Fatimids in Egypt exchanged embassies with their Zirid viceroys in Ifrīqiya after these had been recognized as a hereditary dynasty, and to a lesser extent with their Kalbid deputies in Sicily.Sijillātor official letters of the Fatimid chancery, accompanied by sumptuous presents, invested the Zirids with their authority and favoured them with important announcements, while the Zirids replie…
Inside the Immaculate Portal: A History from Early Fatimid Archives. A new edition and English translation of Mans r al- Az z al-Jawdhar 's biography of al-Ust dh Jawdhar, the S rat al-Ust dh Jawdhar …
This volume is a recent addition to the ongoing publication, since 2000, of Ismaili texts and translations under the auspices of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, now numbering around twenty. The programme is the latest achievement of an operation that began in the 1930s with the work of W. Ivanow, the restoration to the world at large of the literature of the Ismaʿili branch of Shiʿism, sidelined and largely unknown outside the various I…
Property and Money
Property and Money is a simple guide to the investment and financial aspects of commercial property. Putting property into its financial context, it seeks to bridge the world of the surveyor and property developer and the investment and financial markets of the City of London.The book starts from first principles, assuming no pre-existing knowledge. It is thus suitable for students as well as more established property practitioners and its appeal…
Approaching African History
Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continent over the past 10,000 years. Africa is a huge continent, as large as the more habitable areas of Europe and Asia put together. It has a history immensely long, yet the study of that history as an academic discipline in its own right is little more than fiftyyears old. Since then the subject has grown enormously, but the questio…
The Berber identity movement and the challenge to North African states
The Berber identity movement and the challenge to North African states, by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2011, xii + 292 pp., US$55.00, ISBN 978-0-292-72587-4 Implicit in
The First Ethiopians. The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World
By Malvern Van Wyk Smith. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2009. xiv+528 pp. ISBN 978 1 86814 499 0
Morocco: From Empire to Independence
COUNTRIES are moulds into which historians have traditionally poured their efforts without necessarily answering the question, why? If countries are to have their own histories, what might these be—the story of the land, its inhabitants, their civilisation, the state, or simply its representation in the sources? In the modern world, when land and people are both defined by the state, and civilisation is a property of the nation which the state su…
Libya and the Sahara in the History of Africa
The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Tenth Century CE
The New Cambridge History of Islam
Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars – all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and f…
Le Mahdi dans le Maghreb médiéval
Dans le monde islamique médiéval, l'Afrique du Nord fut le centre principal du mahdisme, qui y inspira deux des trois grandes révolutions qui unifièrent le Maghreb entre le IV/Xe et le Vl/XIIe siècles : celle des Fatimides au Xe et celle des Almohades au XIIe siècle. La forme islamique du messianisme judéo-chrétien, le mahdisme, attendait l'arrivée d'un second Muhammad pour inaugurer un âge d'or ; mais il souffrait aussi d'une hésitation entre un…
Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib
Contents: Introduction Part One: Islam and State: The Islamisation of Morocco from the Arabs to the Almoravids Ifriqiya as a market for Saharan trade from the 10th to the 12th century AD The Mim, the a Ayn, and the making of Ismaa ilism The realm of the Imam: the Fatimids in the 10th century Islam and trade in the Bilad al - Sudan, 10th-11th centuries AD The lamp of the Almohads: illumination as a political idea in 12th-century Morocco Morocco an…
Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib
Great Britain and southern Morocco in the nineteenth century
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, British policy was directed towards the protection of Morocco's political integrity and toward maintaining a system of global free trade and freedom of the seas. The policy was only ended as a result of the Entente Cordiale in 1904. With respect to southern Morocco and the Western Sahara region, British merchants, such as Donald Mackenzie, were able to breach the monopoly on trade established by the S…
The Berbers
The Realm of the Imām the Faṭīmids in the tenth century
Despite their period from the tenth to the twelfth century, at the height of the Middle Ages; despite their position in Egypt, at the centre of the civilization of the Near and Middle East; and despite their prominence as the third Caliphate of Islam, the Fāṭimids lack a satisfactory modern history of their dynasty. This is partly because of the length of their life, which covers the histories of so many hundreds of years; partly because of the s…
The way of the nomad
Ibn Khaldūn runs the risk of being everything or nothing-or, at least, no more than this or that. It has long been customary to separate theMuqaddimaor so-called Prolegomena from the body of theKitāb al-'Ibaror so-called Universal History, and to treat them quite differently as an essay in the philosophy of history distinct from a much more commonplace amalgam of historical information of varying value. Regarded as no more than a vast compilation…
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: The Algerian War of Independence in Retrospect
The English-language literature on Algeria generated by the Algerian war of independence and continuing down to the present forms an intellectual as well as linguistic tradition apart from the much more voluminous literature in French. Despite the involvement of French and North African writers who have published in English, it is largely the creation of outsiders looking at the country from British and North American points of view, according to…
The Mīm, the ՙAyn, and the making of Ismāՙīlism
The ՙAlbāުiyya are the followers of al-ՙAlbā՚ b. Dhira՚ al-Dawsī, who set ՙAlī above the Prophet, saying that Muḥammad had been sent by ՙAlī, whom he called a divine being. ... Some believe in the divinity of both ՙAlī and Muḣammad, but still think ՙAlī superior; these are called the ՙAyniyya. Others who think them both divine put Muḣammad first; these are called the Mīmiyya. Yet others believe in the divinity of all five Companions of the Cloak,…
Peeling Away the Past: The Display of Excavations at Nelson Bay Cave
Eighteenth-Century Renewal and Reform in Islam
Libya: Some Aspects of the Mediaeval Period, First–Ninth Century H/Seventh–Fifteenth Century AD
The difficulty with the study of Libyan history, certainly before the sixteenth century, is twofold: firstly the definition of Libya as a subject, secondly the lack of information. The definition of the subject starts from the modern political boundaries, which do not predate the Ottomans; the lack of information must be related to the fact that most of the territory is desert, and peripheral to the concerns of wealthier and more powerful neighbo…
Problems in the Interpretation of the History of the Maghrib in the Light of some Recent Publications
Caught between schools of sociogy, historians of North Africa over the past twenty years have concetrated on the first century of European colonization, 1830-1930. The previous thousand years of the Muslim period remain enigmatic, their interpretation still heavily dependent upon the work of Ibn Kh haldūn. In conclusion to his volume of the 1952 edition of Ch.-A. Julien's Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord , R. Ie Tourneau characterized this 'medieval…
Islam and Trade in the Bilād AL-Sūdān , Tenth-Eleventh Century A.D
Two fatwā-s or legal opinions of the jurist al-Qābisī at Qayrawān about the year A.D. 1000 show the way in which the Law of Islam was used to protect the Muslim against the hazards of trans-Saharan trade with the Bilād al-Sūdan . Trade was to be conducted as far as possible in accordance with the Law, and approval was given to the establishment of Muslim communities in the Bilād al-Sūdān under the authority of a nāzir or ‘watchman’, with the cons…
The Colonial Period in the Maghrib and its Aftermath: The Present State of Historical Writing
The post mortem examination of the French regime in North Africa has tried to establish what went wrong, and when. It has described in detail the adverse effects of the regime upon the indigène , especially in Algeria. Rather less attention has been paid to the minority of those who, under the circumstances, prospered in various ways. The fortunes of the 25,000 Muslim Algerian landowners, for example, each with anything from 50 to 500 or more hec…
Legislating for inequality in Algeria: The Senatus-Consulte of 14 July 1865
Les lois de compétence ne sont done plus les mêmes pour tous ceux qui se trouvent en Algerie. Aujourd'hui une distinction doit être faite, et, ce qui doit paraître invraisemblable en France, au xxe siècle, le critérium de cette distinction est religion
Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib
Contents: Introduction Part One: Islam and State: The Islamisation of Morocco from the Arabs to the Almoravids Ifriqiya as a market for Saharan trade from the 10th to the 12th century AD The Mim, the a Ayn, and the making of Ismaa ilism The realm of the Imam: the Fatimids in the 10th century Islam and trade in the Bilad al - Sudan, 10th-11th centuries AD The lamp of the Almohads: illumination as a political idea in 12th-century Morocco Morocco an…
The Berber identity movement and the challenge to North African states
The Berber identity movement and the challenge to North African states, by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2011, xii + 292 pp., US$55.00, ISBN 978-0-292-72587-4 Implicit in
The way of the nomad
Ibn Khaldūn runs the risk of being everything or nothing-or, at least, no more than this or that. It has long been customary to separate theMuqaddimaor so-called Prolegomena from the body of theKitāb al-'Ibaror so-called Universal History, and to treat them quite differently as an essay in the philosophy of history distinct from a much more commonplace amalgam of historical information of varying value. Regarded as no more than a vast compilation…
The Mīm, the ՙAyn, and the making of Ismāՙīlism
The ՙAlbāުiyya are the followers of al-ՙAlbā՚ b. Dhira՚ al-Dawsī, who set ՙAlī above the Prophet, saying that Muḥammad had been sent by ՙAlī, whom he called a divine being. ... Some believe in the divinity of both ՙAlī and Muḣammad, but still think ՙAlī superior; these are called the ՙAyniyya. Others who think them both divine put Muḣammad first; these are called the Mīmiyya. Yet others believe in the divinity of all five Companions of the Cloak,…
Approaching African History
Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continent over the past 10,000 years. Africa is a huge continent, as large as the more habitable areas of Europe and Asia put together. It has a history immensely long, yet the study of that history as an academic discipline in its own right is little more than fiftyyears old. Since then the subject has grown enormously, but the questio…
Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib
The Realm of the Imām the Faṭīmids in the tenth century
Despite their period from the tenth to the twelfth century, at the height of the Middle Ages; despite their position in Egypt, at the centre of the civilization of the Near and Middle East; and despite their prominence as the third Caliphate of Islam, the Fāṭimids lack a satisfactory modern history of their dynasty. This is partly because of the length of their life, which covers the histories of so many hundreds of years; partly because of the s…
Libya: Some Aspects of the Mediaeval Period, First–Ninth Century H/Seventh–Fifteenth Century AD
The difficulty with the study of Libyan history, certainly before the sixteenth century, is twofold: firstly the definition of Libya as a subject, secondly the lack of information. The definition of the subject starts from the modern political boundaries, which do not predate the Ottomans; the lack of information must be related to the fact that most of the territory is desert, and peripheral to the concerns of wealthier and more powerful neighbo…
Habib Bourguiba: Islam and the Creation of Tunisia
Journal Article Habib Bourguiba: Islam and the Creation of Tunisia Get access Habib Bourguiba: Islam and the Creation of Tunisia, by Norma Salem. Croom Helm, London, 1984. pp. v+270. £16.95. ISBN 0 7099 3319 3. MICHAEL BRETT MICHAEL BRETT School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 87, Issue 346, January 1988, Pages 126–128, https://d…
Morocco and the Ottomans: The Sixteenth Century in North Africa
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Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa
Journal Article Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa Get access Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa, by Allan G. B. Fisher and Humphrey J. Fisher. C. Hurst and Co., London 1970. 182pp. £2.50. MICHAEL BRETT MICHAEL BRETT School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 284, July 1972, Pages 339–340, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxford…
Problems in the Interpretation of the History of the Maghrib in the Light of some Recent Publications
Caught between schools of sociogy, historians of North Africa over the past twenty years have concetrated on the first century of European colonization, 1830-1930. The previous thousand years of the Muslim period remain enigmatic, their interpretation still heavily dependent upon the work of Ibn Kh haldūn. In conclusion to his volume of the 1952 edition of Ch.-A. Julien's Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord , R. Ie Tourneau characterized this 'medieval…
The Segu Tukulor Empire
Journal Article The Segu Tukulor Empire Get access The Segu Tukulor Empire, by B. O. Oloruntimehin. Longman, 1972. xv+357pp. £4·00. MICHAEL BRETT MICHAEL BRETT School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 286, January 1973, Page 84, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096332 Published: 01 January 1973
The Zughba at Tripoli, 429H (1037–8 A.D.)
Speaking of Tripoli, the fourteenth-century writer al-Tijāni says: ‘when the Zughba killed Sa c īd ibn Khazrūn in the year 429’. Sa c īd was the Zanāta lord of the city, and al-Tijānī is explaining that the venerable faqīh Ibn Munammar was driven into exile because, when Sa c īd was killed, he opened the gates to a cousin of the dead man who was promptly expelled by a brother. The reference to the Zughba is thus contained within an account of the…
L'Algérie: Politique, Histoire Et Société
Northern Africa: Islam and Modernization
The Colonial Period in the Maghrib and its Aftermath: The Present State of Historical Writing
The post mortem examination of the French regime in North Africa has tried to establish what went wrong, and when. It has described in detail the adverse effects of the regime upon the indigène , especially in Algeria. Rather less attention has been paid to the minority of those who, under the circumstances, prospered in various ways. The fortunes of the 25,000 Muslim Algerian landowners, for example, each with anything from 50 to 500 or more hec…
Abd al-Qadir and the Algerians: Resistance to the French and Internal Consolidation
Prelude to Protectorate in Morocco: Precolonial Protest and Resistance, 1880–1912
J. D. Fage: An atlas of African history. Maps by Maureen Verity. (Second edition.) [vi], [79] pp. New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1978. [Published in the UK by Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd.]
J. D. Fage: An atlas of African history. Maps by Maureen Verity. (Second edition.) [vi], [79] pp. New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1978. [Published in the UK by Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd.] - Volume 44 Issue 2
Maghreb et Palestine
Nasser and His Generation
Islam and Trade in the Bilād AL-Sūdān , Tenth-Eleventh Century A.D
Two fatwā-s or legal opinions of the jurist al-Qābisī at Qayrawān about the year A.D. 1000 show the way in which the Law of Islam was used to protect the Muslim against the hazards of trans-Saharan trade with the Bilād al-Sūdan . Trade was to be conducted as far as possible in accordance with the Law, and approval was given to the establishment of Muslim communities in the Bilād al-Sūdān under the authority of a nāzir or ‘watchman’, with the cons…
Morocco and the Ottomans: The Sixteenth Century in North Africa
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Islam in the Political Process
Journal Article Islam in the Political Process Get access Islam in the Political Process, edited by James P. Piscatori. Cambridge University Press in association with the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Cambridge, 1983. pp. ix, 240. MICHAEL BRETT MICHAEL BRETT School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 83, Issue 331, April 1984, Pages 260–…
The way of the peasant
The book under review here is to be compared with the volume published over ten years ago under the editorship of Michael Cook, Studies in the economic history of the Middle East (London, 1970). It covers essentially the same subject over the same period of time in the same fashion, by a series of papers contributed to a major international conference. It differs first of all in the length of time it has taken to produce the work, seven years fro…
The Maghrib
In 1905 the Maghrib was sharply divided. Although Algeria had been French since its conquest in the 1830s and 1840s, Morocco was still an independent state, and Libya still a province of the Ottoman Empire. By 1914 Morocco had become a second French protectorate, at the price of territorial concessions to Spain in the north and south. By the First World War, land laws for public and private property had enabled the French to appropriate about hal…
Algerian Nationalism and the Allied Military Strategy and Propaganda during the Second World War: The Background to Sétif
In the history of Algerian nationalism, from its beginnings before the First World War down to the war of Algerian independence, 1954–62, the Second World War was a critical episode in which the demand for reform began to give way to the demand for independence. Two events stand out from the years 1940–5: firstly, the issuing of the Manifeste, a document claiming fully equal rights for the Muslim community, which was drawn up by the Muslim politi…
Continuity and Change: Egypt and North Africa in the Nineteenth Century
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Habib Bourguiba: Islam and the Creation of Tunisia
Journal Article Habib Bourguiba: Islam and the Creation of Tunisia Get access Habib Bourguiba: Islam and the Creation of Tunisia, by Norma Salem. Croom Helm, London, 1984. pp. v+270. £16.95. ISBN 0 7099 3319 3. MICHAEL BRETT MICHAEL BRETT School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 87, Issue 346, January 1988, Pages 126–128, https://d…
Legislating for inequality in Algeria: The Senatus-Consulte of 14 July 1865
Les lois de compétence ne sont done plus les mêmes pour tous ceux qui se trouvent en Algerie. Aujourd'hui une distinction doit être faite, et, ce qui doit paraître invraisemblable en France, au xxe siècle, le critérium de cette distinction est religion
Eighteenth-Century Renewal and Reform in Islam
Libya: Some Aspects of the Mediaeval Period, First–Ninth Century H/Seventh–Fifteenth Century AD
The difficulty with the study of Libyan history, certainly before the sixteenth century, is twofold: firstly the definition of Libya as a subject, secondly the lack of information. The definition of the subject starts from the modern political boundaries, which do not predate the Ottomans; the lack of information must be related to the fact that most of the territory is desert, and peripheral to the concerns of wealthier and more powerful neighbo…
Peeling Away the Past: The Display of Excavations at Nelson Bay Cave
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: The Algerian War of Independence in Retrospect
The English-language literature on Algeria generated by the Algerian war of independence and continuing down to the present forms an intellectual as well as linguistic tradition apart from the much more voluminous literature in French. Despite the involvement of French and North African writers who have published in English, it is largely the creation of outsiders looking at the country from British and North American points of view, according to…
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