Les Empires berbères: constructions et déconstructions d'un objet historiographique

This work compares medieval and modern Arabic sources relating to the Berber Empires (11th-13th centuries) with the way in which European studies have apprehended this topic against the backdrop of the emergence of orientalism and the expansion of France in the Maghreb.
Indeed, the invocation and then the study of the Berber Empires served to characterize a great Other of proximity : the Maghreb at...