Abstract
Abstract The Emirate of Adrar following the Colonial Conquest and the Dissidence of Emir Sidi Ahmed (1909-1932). Circumstances - military pressure by dissident nomads in the north — led the French Emirate in northern Mauritania. Restored after his capture in 1912, Sidi Ahmed attempted to perpetuate the power of the emirate. His struggle reveals the nature of this power which was based upon the interplay of the political factions at the head of the tribal system and of the statutory hierarchy. The emir's power was undermined by the French administration's control over the movements of nomads and over the sources of the emirate's revenues. The departure in dissidence and the death of Sidi Ahmed (1932) put a definitive end to one of the rare attempts at indirect rule by the French in Africa.
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