Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The article sheds light on the adoption of football by the indigenous population in late colonial Algeria and the function of this European import in anticolonial Muslim identity politics. Beyond that, it focuses on the Islamic reformist movement in particular, to investigate the development of an ethics of sports, revolving around practices of virtue and character formation. Thereby, the article contributes to the cultural history of (anti-) colonialism as well as to the historical anthropology of religious reform.
Source: Soccer and Society
Author: Jakob Krais
Institution: Universität der Bundeswehr München
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7203881914