The History and Memory of the Sea in Modern Tunisia: Between the Oral and the Written

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  • Hichem Charfi

Keywords:

Tunisia, Sea History, Memory

Abstract

As-Saghira Ben Hamida, The History and Memory of the Sea in Modern Tunisia: Between the Oral and the Written (Doha/Beirut: ACRPS, 2024), pp. 271.

References

  1. Abdelwahed al-Mokni, “al-Maʿārik wa-l-Sariqāt al-Baḥriyya bi-Sāḥil Ṣafāqis fī al-Fatra al-Muʿāṣira,” in: Abdelhamid Fihri (ed.), Aʿmāl al- Nadwa al-Dawliyya al-Insān wa-l-Baḥr, May 7-8-9, 1999 (Sfax: Publications of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Cercina Center for Research on Mediterranean Islands, 2001); Samir Borchani, Mīnāʾ Ṣafāqis khilāl al-Fatra al-Istiʿmāriyya (Sfax: Taparura Publishing House, 2017).
  2. See, for example: Taoufik Bachrouch, Course et corsaires en Tunisie dans la première moitié du 17ème siècle (Tunis: Edition arabesques, 2020); Leila Zaghdoud, al-Baḥriyya al-Tūnisiyya fī Qarn 1782-1881 (Tunis: Kalma for Publishing and Distribution, 2022); Farid Khacharem, al-Ḥayāh al- Yawmiyya bi-Jihat Ṣafāqis khilāl al-Niṣf al-Thānī min al-Qarn al-Tāsiʿ ʿAshar (Sfax: Mohamed Ali Publishing, 2022), p. 211.
  3. The historian of the modern period generally relies on traditional research sources and makes little use of interviews and surveys, given the temporal distance from the period being examined and the lack of access to people who took part in the events concerned.
  4. Ben Hamida, pp. 25-95.
  5. Ibid., pp. 97-142.
  6. Ibid., pp. 143-230.
  7. See: Moncef Bourbou, al-Masālik al-Baḥriyya al-Wāqiʿa ʿalā al-Sāḥil al-Janūbī li-Jazīrat Jirba Khilāl al-Fatra al-Wasīṭa al-Mutaʾakhkhira: Wāqiʿ al-Jughrāfiyā al-Ṭabīʿiyya wa-Waqāʾiʿ al-Tārīkh al-ʿAskarī , in: Salem Mokni (ed.), Min Sirt al-Ṣughrā ilā Sirt al-Kubrā , Vol. 1 (Sfax: Aladdin Bookstore, 2019), p. 29.
  8. Ben Hamida, p. 69.
  9. Farid Khacharem, “Madkhal li-Dirāsat al-Ṣayd al-Baḥrī al-Taqlīdī bi-Khalīj Qābis Khilāl al-Qarn al-Tāsiʿ ʿAshar,” in: Mekni (ed.), p. 62.
  10. Ben Hamida, p. 110.
  11. As-Saghira Ben Hamida, “al-Muṣṭalaḥ al-Baḥrī al-Manṭūq bi-Sāḥil al-Janūb al-Sharqī li-l-Bilād al-Tūnisiyya: Namūdhaj li-Istiqrāʾ al-Marājiʿ al-Tārīkhiyya wa-l-Iqtiṣādiyya wa-l-Ijtimāʿiyya,” Master’s thesis, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sfax, 2011.
  12. Jean Ganiage, Une entreprise italienne de Tunisie au milieu du XIX e siècle (Paris: Presse universitaire de France, 1960), p. 7.
  13. Khacharem, “Madkhal li-Dirāsat al-Ṣayd al-Baḥrī al-Taqlīdī bi-Khalīj Qābis Khilāl al-Qarn al-Tāsiʿ ʿAshar,” p. 62.
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