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Smugglers and saints of the Sahara : regional connectivity in the twentieth century
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Smugglers and saints of the Sahara : regional connectivity in the twentieth century

Judith Scheele

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Founding saints and moneylenders: regional ecologies and oasis settlement; 2. Saints on trucks: Algerian traders and settlement in the biblād al-sūdān; 3. Dates, cocaine, and AK 47s: moral conundrums on the Algero-Malian border; 4. Struggles over encompassment: hierarchy, genealogies, and their contemporary use; 5. Universal law and local containment: assemblies, qudāh and the quest for civilisation; 6. Settlement, mobility, and the daily pitfalls of Saharan cosmopolitanism; Conclusion: Saharan connectivity and the 'swamp of terror'.

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Smugglers and saints of the Sahara : regional connectivity in the twentieth century by Judith Scheele. ISBN 9781107022126. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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