Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara : Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)

1. Founding saints and moneylenders: regional ecologies and oasis settlement; 2. Saints on trucks: Algerian traders and settlement in the bibl?d al-s?d?n; 3. Dates, cocaine, and AK 47s: moral conundrums on the Algero?Malian border; 4. Struggles over encompassment: hierarchy, genealogies, and their contemporary use; 5. Universal law and local containment: assemblies, qud?h and the quest for civilisation; 6. Settlement, mobility, and the daily pitfalls of Saharan cosmopolitanism; Conclusion: Saharan connectivity and the 'swamp of terror'; Glossary; References; Index.