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Index
Author Biography
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
A Note on Transliteration
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
1 Considering Kabylia
Greater Kabylia
The Kabyles and the other Algerian Berbers
Pre-colonial Kabylia and the academy: I. The unresolved controversy and its revival
Pre-colonial Kabylia and the academy: II. Towards a clarification of the debate
The two perspectives
2 Economy and Forms of Settlement
Leqbayel and Igawawen
The economy of Kabylia
The ‘arsh in Kabylia
Thaddarth and tūfīq
The Igawawen thaddarth
3 Kabyle Law
The qawānīn
Qānūn, ‘urf and Sharī‘a
The code of honour and the code of law
Antagonism in society
4 The Kabyle Polity
The thijemmu‘a of Kabylia
The temman
The sfūf
The sfūf and the ‘arsh
The saff systems
The vindication of Masqueray
5 Pre-colonial Kabylia and the Regency: Religion and Political Development, 1509–1639
Introduction
Ibn Khaldun and the Kabyles
The Ottoman revolution
The Ottoman Regency and the nature of Kabyle opposition
The second coming of maraboutism in Kabylia
6 The Rise and Fall of the Lords of Koukou
The ‘kingdom’ of Koukou: the enigma
The Ath l-Qadi and the foundation of Koukou
Vassals and the temptation of disloyalty
Ottoman policy between the Kabyles and the Ojaq
Ottoman policy and the end of Koukou
Koukou defined
7 The Reconstitution of Greater Kabylia after 1640
The origins of an originality
The Igawawen and the exheredation of the Kabyle woman
The imrabdhen and the reordering of Kabylia
The Iboukhtouchen succession and the Ottoman penetration of Kabylia
The Ottoman dispensation and the supersession of the Iboukhtouchen
The assemblies of the Igawawen and their purposes
8 Transcending Kabylia: The Constitutional Tradition and and the Exceptional Tradition
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes
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