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Article Dans Une Revue The Journal of North African Studies Année : 2009

Islam re-observed: sanctity, salafism and islamism

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Clifford Geertz analyzed religious change in Morocco by developing an approach to Islam that uses both history and anthropology. His analysis is rooted in his conception of anthropology as a discipline whose focus is culture, a system of meanings through which human beings exchange goods and symbols. In traditional societies, religion has a particular place in this system where it plays a political role of legitimation. European domination provoked change in Morocco, including the decline of sacredness and the triumph of Salafism, a doctrine more appropriate to the national feeling. A post-Geertzian perspective might consider that Salafism, which has become an official doctrine of the postcolonial state, became radicalized while it was providing mass education, giving rise to the Islamist challenge. The decline of sanctity created a void that Islamism filled.
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Lahouari Addi. Islam re-observed: sanctity, salafism and islamism. The Journal of North African Studies, 2009, Vol. 14 (N°3), pp.331-345. ⟨10.1080/13629380902923978⟩. ⟨halshs-00450972⟩
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