In the name of culture: Berber activism and the material politics of "popular Islam" in southeastern Morocco

After Moroccan independence in 1956, salafi critiques of the heterodox and heteroprax tendencies associated with "popular Islam" (l'islam populaire, as elaborated in particular by French colonial ethnologists and legal scholars) became enshrined within state ideology and administratio...

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Main Author: Silverstein, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2012]
In: Material religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, Pages: 330-353
Further subjects:B popular Islam
B Morocco
B Berbers
B Philo-semitism
B Sufism
B Secularism
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