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Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew Entangled Lives in Morocco LAWRENCE ROSEN The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London Lawrence Rosen is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School. He is the author of many books, including Bargaining for Reality, The Culture of Islam, and Varieties of Muslim Experience, all also published by the University of Chicago Press. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2016 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2016. 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 31734- 2 (cloth) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 31748- 9 (paper) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 31751- 9 (e- book) DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226317519.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rosen, Lawrence, 1941– author. Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew : entangled lives in Morocco / Lawrence Rosen. pages ; cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-226-31734-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-226-31748-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-226-31751-9 (ebook) 1. Morocco— Intellectual life—21st century. 2. Morocco—Social life and customs— 21st century. 3. Berbers—Morocco. 4. Arabs—Morocco. 5. Jews— Morocco. I. Title. DT325.5.R67 2015 306.0964—dc23 201504459 This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1 992 (Permanence of Paper). For Clifford Geertz and Hildred Storey Geertz Teachers, colleagues, friends Has there come upon man a while of time when he was a thing unremembered? QURAN 76:1 I will [tell] the story as I go along of small cities no less than of great. Most of those which were great once are small today; and those which in my own lifetime have grown to greatness were small enough in the old days. HERODOTUS From now on I’ll describe the cities to you, the Khan said. In your journeys you will see if they exist. ITALO CALVINO, Invisible Cities Therefore, I decided with the help of God to blacken these pages with what I saw and heard during this voyage, be it clear or obscure. For I am but a woodgatherer of the night, the one who lags behind, a horse who is out of the race. You should not judge me too harshly, for I am only doing it as a reminder to myself, and to inform others who may ask me from among my fellow countrym en. Let the masters of composition and rhetoric excuse me, and let the burden of the men of metaphor and allusion be lifted from me. I beseech God to cover my mistakes. Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France in 1845–1 846: The Voyage of Muh. ammad as.- S. affaˉr Sefrou, 1972 Sefrou, 2008 CONTENTS Prologue: A World of Difference / xi Committed to Memory: Haj Hamed Britel / 1 A Midmost Nation: Yaghnik Driss / 93 Courier of the Horizons: Hussein ou Muhammad Qadir / 167 A Nation among Nations: Shimon Benizri / 247 Epilogue: Making a Difference / 333 Acknowledgments / 341 Suggestions for Further Reading / 345 Additional Captions / 359 Index / 361
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