Moroccans and the Diplomacy of Capitalism: An International Historical Sociology of the First Moroccan Crisis (1904–1906)

• Autores: Meriam Mabrouk
• Localización: Maghreb review: Majallat al-Maghrib, ISSN 0309-457X, Vol. 47, Nº. 4, 2022, págs. 351-374
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In analysing the Moroccan Crisis of 1904–6, Morocco is reduced to a footnote of European diplomacy while its historical context and the role of its socio-political actors are entombed. Intervening in this debate, this article provides a counter-narrative to existing accounts of the First Moroccan Crisis; one in which agency was acted in the periphery, not merely enacted upon by empire.

    How were agency and counter-agency, therefore, articulated throughout this period? And, to what extent did the collusion between the forces of empire and distinctive emerging Moroccan classes shape state–society relations and confront or reinforce the expanding nature of European capital? As an answer, the article draws on International Historical Sociology and Moroccan historiography to explore the materialist roots of Muslim diplomatic practice in Morocco. By investigating the contradictions between state and capital in relation to the protégé system and Dār ānnyāba in Tanja, this article seeks to demystify the lineages of the colonial marketplace in relation to the Moroccan question.