Tunisia's Andalusians

Marta Domínguez Díaz is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies (Anthropology) at the University of St. Gallen. She holds a BA from Barcelona and an MA and PhD from SOAS, London. Previously, she has held research and teaching positions at SOAS and the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and collaborated with the Religious Studies Department at the University of Vienna. Her research interests encompass cultural identities and ethnicity in North Africa, Sufism (North African and European), Islam in Europe, Ritual Studies, Comparative Religion, and Muslim-Jewish Relations. Her publications include, Women in Sufism: Female Religiosities in a Transnational Order (Routledge, 2015) and numerous academic articles in her fields of expertise.

This book fills an important gap in the study of the contemporary reality of the Morisco-Andalusian community in Tunisia. Through a skilful anthropological approach, the author demonstrates that the memory of the expulsion and its aftermath remains deeply resonant among the descendants of those expelled, more than 415 years after their forced displacement.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Andalusians as a MinorityMudéjares, Moriscos and Andalusians: The Historical Making of a Minority (Eighth to Early Seventeenth Centuries)Shaykhdoms: Andalusian Identity and Tribal PoliticsTestour: Social Relations in an Andalusian TownThe Shashiyya and the Demise of Andalusian Material CultureAndalusian Traditions: Between Cultural Loss and RevivalAndalusians and the Past: Doing Ethnicity through MemoryEpilogue: The Changing Nature of Andalusian IdentityBibliographyIndex