Dal sultanato alla monarchia: fondamenti ideologici e simbolici del Marocco post-coloniale

Abstract

This paper highlights some key aspects of the construction of the modern Morocco, during a nation building process which affects the Arab countries during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, it will focus on the transition from sultanate to constitutional monarchy, which created changes in the institutional order and implied the adjustment of the symbolic capital investing the local Power, with an evident ‘invention of tradition’. This process is essential to the axial role which the Alawite dynasty played during the anticolonial struggle by sustaining the nationalist movements in order to pursue the political hegemony in the post-independence and ensure a strong continuity.

Keywords

• Morocco
• nationalism
• Moroccan national identity
• nation building
• Alawite dynasty
• Marocco
• nazionalismo
• identità nazionale marocchina
• dinastia alawita