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Olhares portugueses sobre o Magrebe: mitos e realidades

2011; PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE MINAS GERAIS; Volume: 12; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês

2237-8871

Jorge Afonso,

Religion and Society in Latin America

This article, based on documentation from eighteenth to twentieth centuries, makes a brief incursion to the image of Maghreb’s Islam known in Portugal. Captivity narratives of Portuguese citizens in Algiers Regence versus ideological productions printed in Portugal justified the misunderstanding of a reality that was still devaluated although it was important to the strategic health of the Portuguese State. To contemporary status quo of a barbaric Maghreb, it was opposed the image of an inclusive Islam more tolerant than other political realities in the north edge of the Mediterranean Sea.