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This dissertation presents an investigation of climatic and tectonic controls on Quaternary eolian sedimentary sequences of the Chott Rharsa Basin on the northern margin of the Sahara Desert, in southern Tunisia. This basin, which lies within the larger Atlas foreland basin of N…

My thesis deals with the complex relationship between religion, society, and politics in the pre-colonial southwestern Sahara, an area where Islam was a powerful unifying force of a tribal virtually stateless society. In this society, two major social groups competed for power a…