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Title: | Myth and Legend as Functional Instruments in Politics: The Establishment of the 'Alawi Dynasty in Morocco |
Author: | Mojuetan, B.A. |
Year: | 1975 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Studies (UCLA) |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 17-27 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Morocco |
Subjects: | monarchy History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181096 |
Abstract: | Legendary stories of some of the Lost Tribes of Israel, organized into a powerful kingdom in Africa, were first propagated in the Maghrib towards the end of the ninth century A.D. In the seventeenth century the Jewish Kingdom legend was to assume a significance of national dimension in a Maghribian state because of its manipulation for political ends by the founder of the 'Alawi dynasty in Morocco; it was thereafter kept alive for propaganda purposes. How the legend was made to serve a political function forms the burden of this paper. Notes, summary. |