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The lexical violence of imperial culture
2018
Rethinking history
This article studies the history of a single word and its movement from pre-Islamic Arabia to the languages of modern Europe. It focuses on the key moment of the early nineteenth century when the Arabic 'ghazwā' served as the root and model of the French 'razzia' in the early Algerian colony. Tracing the history of the ghazwā through Islamic history and its subsequent emergence in Romance forms, the essay is comparative in the sense that it asks what happens in the movement of ideas and
doi:10.1080/13642529.2018.1451069
fatcat:eh546loa4vfb7mxjddf5rztlzm