Description: This book presents key moments from the lives of mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean world at the turn of the twentieth century, showing how their nonconformity forced those around them to rethink basic values and mores.
Brief description: Odile Moreau is an associate professor of history at the University of Montpellier in France and a researcher at the French National Research Center (CNRS), Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF), Paris.
Review Quotes: "[A] highly interesting volume...This collection joins a welcomed and renewed historiographical attention to the historical actor as an agent of sociopolitical change."-- "Mediterranean Historical Review" (5/18/2019 12:00:00 AM)