Les populations du Sahara occidental
Auteure: Attilio Gaudio
Nombre de pages: 359In this book, Journalist Attilio Gaudio, specialist of Morocco and the Sahara, recalls the history of the people of this alive desert. Islam has allowed the development of numerous brotherhoods, with their important historic-religious literature, as a support to mysticism being both popular and scholarly. From these Arabic texts old, the archives of the Spanish colonization as well as the works of European authors, Attilio Gaudio traces the history, genealogies and lifestyles of the main Saharan tribes and analyzes their relations with each other. He shows that the socio-economic and cultural organization is well adapted to the hard living conditions.