History of North Africa

Charles André Julien

“The French edition of the second volume of Histoire de l’Afrique du Nord has long been accepted as a convenient reference by students of Middle Eastern, West African, and North African history. A second French edition, updated by Roger Le Tourneau and including a valuable bibliographic guide, has now been translated into English in order to fill both the English-speaking historiographer’s need for information on North Africa’s past and the general reader’s curiosity about the sociology, economics, art, and archaeology of the Maghrib. Charles-André Julien recounts a critical period in the history of North Africa, one in which the region witnessed the rise and fall of many dynasties without ever achieving a lasting unity, as Islam became an inseparable aspect of the social, political, and national character of the time. The process of Islamization began as early as the end of the...