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Greetings,

In addition to the excellent recommendations, you might also wish to
consult Norman
Stillman's magisterial Jews of Arab lands in modern times, which includes
primary
documents, as well. Other great sources are Avigdor Levy's edited volume
on The Jews
of the Ottoman Empire, Esther Benbassa & Aron Rodrigue's Sephardi Jewry,
and others.
(The great late Ottoman-Jewish scholar Avram Galant??'s Histoire des Juifs de
Turquie does, if I recall correctly, include studies that touch upon the
AIU, as
well.)

Finally, as with anything relating to the Jews of the Islamic world, is the
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world (Brill, 2010), which was edited by
Stillman, Levy, Rodrigue, and several other leading scholars in the field,
is a
great resource -- there is a long entry on the AIU (written by Rodrigue):
http://www.brillonline.nl/entries/encyclopedia-of-jews-in-the-islamic-world/alliance-israelite-universelle-network-COM_0001600.

The bibliography also cites Michael Laskier's study focusing on AIU
schools in
Morocco.


D Gershon Lewental, PhD
Schusterman visiting professor of Israel studies,
Department of History and College of International Studies,
University of Oklahoma

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