Notes
1 Iman Hajji points out the need to consult the Ottoman archives to elucidate the activities of M’hamed Ali al-Hammi during the war (200). The same could be said of the rest of her protagonists. Moreau used Ottoman archives in the chapter she wrote about Enver Pasha in Odile Moreau and Stuart Schaar, eds., Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Subaltern History (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016).
2 This information was crossed out but still legible in a handwritten document of 14 pages attached to a note dated 31 January 1918. The French Protectorate administration used private information such as this to blackmail individuals and force them to divulge information to Protectorate individuals and turn them into government informants. Such information was usually placed in reserved files, which could be seen only by the highest members of the Protectorate’s bureaucracy. It is surprising that this document was available for public viewing and not set aside. Tunis, Archives générales, archives du Premier Ministêre, série histoire de mouvement national, carton 4, dossier Number 1, folio 4.