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Article: La Legende noire de la Sanusiyya: une confrerie musulmane saharienne sous le regard francais, 1840-1930.(Review)
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- September 22, 1999
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JEAN-LOUIS TRIAUD, La Legende noire de la Sanusiyya: une confrerie musulmane saharienne sous le regard francais, 1840-1930. Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme; Aix-en-Provence: Institut de recherches et d'etudes sur le monde arabe et musulmane, 1995, two volumes, 1,178 pp., ISBN 2 7351 0584 9.
The black legend surrounding the Sanusiyya, the idea that this Muslim brotherhood was at the centre of anti-European conspiracies, was a harbour of fanaticism, is seen here as the careerist fabrication of a French vice-consul in Benghazi, Eugene Ricard, who sustained himself in that posting for thirty years (1865-95) on the strength of a spurious expertise ...