A study of Lyautey's administration of Morocco in relation to indigenous and Islamic institutions [Ressource électronique] /
Alan M. Scham
- 1 vol. (651 p.)
Ph. D. : Histoire : University of Derham, School of Oriental studies : 1967
Bibliogr. 637-651
The purpose of this thesis is to outline the ma:in :institutional changes made in Morocco during the ear~ phase of the French Protectorate, when a very remarkable man, Marshal Lyautey, held office as the first French Resident General (1912-1925). I have not attempted to discuss !zy"autey's military achievement in pacifying and uniting Morocco, partly at a time when the First World ~.Jar was :in progress; nor to survey the economic developments and social changes which took place. I have limited the thesis to developments in the g'Overmnental apparatus, land and property administration, education system and judicial organization~ I have documented it from the laws and decrees promulgated during the period and published in the Bulletin Official du Protectorat de la ~J2'!blig:ue FranQaise au Maroc. I chose this subject for three principal reasons: no detailed and systematic study of it has yet been done; such a study is ba.c(cy' needed if any historical survey of the Protectorate is to be undertaken (and none has yet been published); !zy"autey1 s works, despite changes of policy under his successors, determined the character of' official institutions in Morocco during the ent:ire period of the Protectorate (1912-19 56). I have presented this study in seven chapters. The first chapter briefly discusses the reasons tiby France wished to make Morocco a Protectorate, and the diplomatic steps taken by the French in accomplishing this. The second chapter discusses Iiyautey' s colonial career, explaining some of the key events -which formed his ideas on colonial administration, and shows how these ideas were applied in :t-1orocco. It gives a background and explanation of events which led to the setting up of the institutions discussed in the following chapters. Chapter lli expla:ins the position of the Government before the establishment of the Protectorate, at central, municipal and tribal level, and how and when the French changed it~ The next chapter, on property, explains the position of property in :t-1orocco aga:in before the French came, how they changed its structure, and h