Guns, Culture and Moors

Ali Al Tuma is a JSPS fellow at the United Nations University in Tokyo, and was a faculty member at Leiden University.

Introduction

Part I: Combat and life in the army

1. A military overview of the Spanish Civil War and the role of the Moroccan troops

2. The Moroccans on the battlefield

3. The Moroccan and his army

Part II: Women and religion: the Moroccans and Spanish society

4. Victims, wives and concubines: relations between Moroccan troops and Spanish women

5. Moros y Cristianos: religious aspects of the participation of Moroccan soldiers in the war

Part III: The Moroccan as enemy, the Moroccan as ‘Brother’

6. The Republic and the Moroccans

7. To be Spanish, to be Moroccan

Conclusions

Appendices