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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/mcl_facpub Part of the Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Commons Recommended Citation Campbell, Ian, "Tactile Labyrinths and Sacred Interiors: Spatial Practices and Political Choices in Abdelmajid Ben Jalloun’s Fí al-Tufúla and Ahmed Sefrioui’s La boîte à merveilles" (2014). World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications. 28. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/mcl_facpub/28 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of World Languages and Cultures at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Tactile Labyrinths and Sacred Interiors: Spatial Practices and Political Choices in Abdelmajid Ben Jalloun’s Fí al-Tufúla and Ahmed Sefrioui’s La boîte à merveilles Ian Campbell Georgia State University Twenty-first century editions of travel guides to Morocco include maps of the city of Fes that differ in an important respect from maps in twentieth-century editions. The new maps contain detailed maps of the old city of Fes, founded in the eighth century CE and long one of the cultural capitals of the Maghreb. In 1912, the French formally colonized Morocco;1 with their typical enthusiasm for la mission civilisatrice, the French began to rationalize lands that had nominally been under one Muslim dynasty or another for over twelve centuries.