''Harka'' (
Maghrebi Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic, often known as ''ad-Dārija'' to differentiate it from Literary Arabic, is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb. It includes the Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan, Hassaniya and Saharan Arabic di ...
: ) in
Maghrebi
Maghrebi Arabic, often known as ''ad-Dārija'' to differentiate it from Literary Arabic, is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb. It includes the Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan, Hassaniya and Saharan Arabic di ...
history refers to a military campaign with military, political, or financial (tax-collecting) goals, often a punitive expedition against insurgents.
In the history of Morocco, ''harka'' refers to military campaigns carried out by the
sultans of Morocco
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or other high-ranking officials, such as
''qaids'', with the goal of collecting taxes or pacifying or suppressing revolting regions or tribes (as in
Bled es-Siba).
Walter Burton Harris
Walter Burton Harris (29 August 1866 – 4 April 1933) was a journalist, writer, traveller and socialite who achieved fame for his writings on Morocco, where he worked for many years as special correspondent for ''The Times''. He settled in the c ...
described a ''harka'' in the time of Sultan
Abdelaziz in ''
Morocco That Was'', although he confused it with the word ''harqa'' () related to burning.
See also
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References
*Afif, "Les harka hassaniennes d'aprés l'oeuvre d'A Ibn Zaydan" (1980– 1981) 19 Hesperis-Tamuda 153
*El Moudden, "Etat et Société rurale à travers la harka au Maroc du XIXe siècle" (1983
8The Maghreb Review 141
*Miller. A History of Modern Morocco
p 36
*William Spencer, "The Urban World of Morocco" (1970) 19(1) Landscape 36 at 39 (No 1, Winter 1970, published July 1971
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Military terminology
Military history of Algeria
Military history of Morocco
Military history of Tunisia
Algerian Arabic words and phrases
Moroccan Arabic words and phrases