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“A number of friends have asked me, more than once, to write an account of the years under Italian colonization. I decided to do that when I watched Italian colonialists destroy my country and its people. I trust that this account will help to shed light on the history of the Italian occupation of my country, and let Allah be witness to the sincerity and truthfulness of my words.”1
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Enver Pasha, Diario della guerra libica, translated into Italian by Salvatore Bono, Cappelli, Bologna 1986.
Mohammed ben Othman al-Hachaichi, Voyage au Pays des Senoussia à travers la Tripolitanie et le pays touaregh, Imprimerie Darantiere, Dijon 1903, p. 278.
See Ira M. Lapidus, Storia delle società islamiche, vol. III, I popoli musulmani, Einaudi, Turin 1995, p. 175 (Italian edition of A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Muhammad al-Tahir al-Jarari, L’istruzione in Libia prima e dopo il 1911, in Un colonialismo, due sponde del Mediterraneo, edited by Nicola Labanca and Pierluigi Venuta, Editrice CRT, Pistoia 2000, p. 67.
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See, with reference to the myth of the Roman world, Massimiliano Munzi, L’epica delritorno. Archeologia e politica nella Tripolitania italiana, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 2001, pp. 9–30.
Carlo Galli, Diari e lettere, Tripoli 1911–Trieste 1918, Sansoni, Florence 1951, p. 65.
Concerning the diplomatic, psychological, and secret preparation of the invasion of Libya, see Angelo Del Boca, Gli italiani in Libia. Tripoli bel suol d’amore, 1860–1922, Laterza, Rome-Bari 1986, pp. 3–95. The book is now also available in the Arabic language, having been published in 1995 by the Libyan Studies Centre, in a fine translation by Mahum Ali Tayeb.
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Boca, A.D. (2011). Tripolitania under Ottoman Rule. In: Mohamed Fekini and the Fight to Free Libya. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230116337_2
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