In the Shadow of the Sultan
Culture, Power, and Politics in Morocco
Edited by Rahma Bourqia
Edited by Susan Gilson Miller
In the Shadow of the Sultan is a collection of essays which chart the intimate discursive relationship between popular culture and dynastic or governmental legitimization from the medieval to contemporary periods...By emphasizing cultural norms and popular perceptions, it replaces the external image of Moroccan monarchial hegemony with a more complex picture of the monarchial tradition as one facet of a complex social and psychological landscape.
--Amira K. Bennison, Times Literary Supplement
Rahma Bourqia is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at University Hasan II, Mohammedia, and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Mohammed V University, Rabat. She is the author of State, Power, and Society in Morocco.
Susan Gilson Miller is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Davis.