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This book examines through the edition, translation, and study of Almohad provincial appointments the administrative, political, ideological, and religious organisation of the largest European-African Empire, renewing the study of power and authority in the medieval Islamic world.

Au Maroc, les mythes fondateurs des cultes et rituels de guérison illustrent de manière probante les processus d'élaboration des significations et des dynamiques du pouvoir dans le passé proche et leurs articulations actuelles, tant à l'échelle locale que nationale.In Morocco, the founding myths of healing cults and rituals illustrate the symbolism and dynamics of power in both local and national contexts.

Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids. The Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib investigates the development of legal institutions in the Far Maghrib during its unification with al-Andalus under the Almoravids (434-530/1042-1147).

La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval de Mohamed Meouak offre une ample étude géo-historique de la langue berbère basée sur l'examen critique de nombreuses sources rédigées en arabe et en berbère, du Moyen Âge à la période moderne.La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval by Mohamed Meouak offers a wide geo-historical study of the Berber language based on the critical examination of many sources written in Arabic and Berber, from the Middle Ages to the Modern period.

Thisvolume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures inthe Eastern Baltics-Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russia-at theend of the Cold War and in the early post-Communist period.

This ten-chapter book explores how music and society are, and have been, intertwined and mutually influential. It examines the agents behind these connections: who determines musical cultures in society? Which social groups are represented in particular musical contexts? Which social groups are silenced or less well represented in music's histories, and why?