Experimental Visions of Modern Morocco
Expertise, Popularization, and Everyday Technologies in the Work of ʿAbd al-Salam al-Diyuri
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8969014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Williford (0000-0001-7401-9781, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 668-686 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743822000794 |
| OpenAlex | W4309624973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article examines the work and trajectory of ʿAbd al-Salam al-Diyuri, a Moroccan engineer educated in Egypt who became a nationalist writer, editor, and publisher during the last decade of the French Protectorate (1912–56). One of only a few Moroccan engineers trained in Arabic during this period, al-Diyuri developed a vision of modernization rooted in the popularization of technical knowledge that distinguished him from colonial engineers as well as nationalist elites. French experts exercised an epistemic dominance over the practice of engineering under the protectorate as well as after Morocco's independence. In this context, al-Diyuri's arguments traced the contours of an alternative future for the country—one that tied decolonization to the cultivation of technical competencies among the public at large. This article follows the path of a nationalist engineer and intellectual whose work both embodied and attempted to move beyond a contradiction between the democratization of knowledge and the demands of development
Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Contradiction · Democracy · Democratization · Epistemology · Independence (probability theory · Modernization theory · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Protectorate · Social science · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
Introduction
Navigating Modernity
Engineering Heterotopia
Colonial State-Building and the Negotiation of Arab and Berber Identity in Protectorate Morocco
French colonial education and elite Moroccan Muslim resistance, from the treaty of fes to the Berber Dahir
The Moroccan nationalist movement
Purity and Contamination
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |