Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean

"This book is important in helping shape the emerging field of Mediterranean history, which aims to overcome the pitfalls of nationally based histories. Taken as a whole, the book encapsulates, through the lively narratives of individual life histories, many of the important developments at a crucial moment in the history of the Middle East and North Africa." ~Daniel Schroeter, University of Minnesota, coeditor of Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa and author of The Sultan’s Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World

"This most impressive volume is an important contribution to our knowledge of the Muslim societies that it covers. Significantly, it should provide a most useful text for university teaching in terms of both the information provided and the methodological ground traversed." ~Kenneth Brown, founding editor of Mediterraneans journal and author of People of Salé: Tradition and Change in a Moroccan City, 1830-1930

"Together, [Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean's] essays highlight novel ways in which the members of colonised societies were able to oppose and subvert imperial power. They confirm that effective resistance could take any form and be mounted by anyone. It was not limited to dramatic acts or grand gestures." ~Middle Eastern Studies

"[A] highly interesting volume…This collection joins a welcomed and renewed historiographical attention to the historical actor as an agent of sociopolitical change." ~Mediterranean Historical Review