A Tale of Two Sultans: Franco-Moroccan ReInventions of Mūlāy Ismā'īl and his Marriage Proposal to La Princesse de Conti

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI:10.1353/nlh.2021.0023

Nizar F. Hermes, Mary Allen

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Abstract

Abstract:In this article, we explore the Orientalized perception and racialized representation of the Afro-Arab sultan of Morocco MūlāyIsmā' īl(r. 1672 to 1727) as found in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French sources. We do so by chiefly revisiting the mock "fairy tale love story" of MūlāyIsmā' īl, including his alleged marriage proposal to Marie Anne de Bourbon, la Princesse de Conti, the eldest legitimized and favorite daughter of King Louis XIV of France. After examining the Orientalist tropes of French and European images of MūlāyIsmā' īl, we turn to a number of modern and contemporary Moroccan defenses of MūlāyIsmā' īl, especially as articulated by Moroccan historian and apologist Ibn Zaydān, one of presumably thousands of MūlāyIsmā' īl's descendants. Our aim is to explore how the racially charged Franco demonizations and the discursively loaded Moroccan vindications of MūlāyIsmā' īlhave been reinvented and renegotiated in French and Arabic historical and literary sources from the seventeenth century up to the twenty-first century.

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两个苏丹的故事:法国-摩洛哥人对Mūlāy伊斯玛? ? l的再创造及其向康蒂公主的求婚

摘要:本文探讨了非洲裔阿拉伯人摩洛哥苏丹MūlāyIsmā' ? l(r)的东方化认知和种族化表征。(1672年至1727年)，见于17世纪和18世纪的法国文献。我们这样做,主要是重新模拟的“童话爱情故事”MūlāyIsmā的īl,包括他所谓的求婚玛丽安妮·德波本威士忌,公主de孔蒂最年长的合法化和最喜欢的法国国王路易十四的女儿。在考察了法国和欧洲对MūlāyIsmā' l形象的东方主义比喻之后，我们转向许多现代和当代摩洛哥人对MūlāyIsmā' l的辩护，特别是摩洛哥历史学家和辩护者伊本Zaydān所阐述的，他可能是MūlāyIsmā' l的数千名后裔之一。我们的目的是探索从17世纪到21世纪，充满种族色彩的佛朗哥妖魔化和充满话语的摩洛哥人对MūlāyIsmā' ? l的辩护是如何在法国和阿拉伯的历史和文学资料中被重新发明和重新谈判的。

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