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Itzea Goicolea-Amiano

Ambivalent Images of Otherness(es) in the War and the Spanish Occupation of Tetouan (1859–1862)

Abstract In this article the ambivalent nature of the constructions of both Spanish and internal Otherness(es) will be argued by presenting excerpts of different Arabic sources related to the War of Tetouan (1859–1860) and the following Spanish occupation (1860–1862), both of which are seen as landmarks in Morocco’s pre-colonial loss of independence.

In diesem Artikel wird die ambivalente Natur der Konstruktion sowohl eines spanischen als auch eines inneren (marokkanischen) Anderen für die Zeit des Kriegs von Tetouan (1859–1860) und der daran anschließenden spanischen Okkupation (1860–1862) dargelegt. Dazu werden Passagen verschiedener arabischer Quellen analysiert, die sich auf jene als einschneidend für den vor-kolonialen Souveränitätsverlust Marokkos geltenden Ereignisse beziehen.

1 Introduction

On 22 October 1859 Spain declared war to the Sharifian Empire. The declaration was grounded on the accusation that the tribe of Anjera, which inhabited the field surrounding Ceuta, had attacked the Spanish garrisoned forces. The war, fought between 1859 and 1860, ended in Spain’s victory, and the subsequent occupation of the northern Moroccan city of Tetouan until 1862.

As Muhammad al-Nasiri and other historians have held, the armed conflict was key in the acceleration of “the end of Morocco’s independence” (Al-Nasiri 2010, p. 77). The signature of the peace treaty led to the establishment of new borders...