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In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to observe the hajj as an anthropologist but also to experience it as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non-Muslims.

In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to observe the hajj as an anthropologist but also to experience it as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non-Muslims.

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Each year, in a solemn Sunni Muslim feast, the Ait Mizane of southern Morocco reenact the story of Abraham as a ritual sacrifice, a symbolic observance of their submission to the divine. After this sober ceremony comes a bacchanalian masquerade which seems to violate every principle the sacrifice affirmed. Because of the apparent contradiction between sacrifice and masquerade, observers have described the two as entirely separate events. This ...

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Foundations of Monarchical Authority and Forms of Exercise of Power: Toward a Redefinition of the Moroccan Political System 2: Dar-al-Mulk as Discourse and Practice of Power: The Cultural Schemata of Domination and Submission before the Colonial Conquest 3: Master and Disciple: Identifying a Historical Diagram and the Sources of Its Sanctification 4: The Colonial Elaboration of Authoritarianism 5: The Cu...

Geschichte einer Pilgerfahrt Mekka: die heilige Stadt des Islam, die Stadt, die für Nicht-Muslime verboten ist. Wer dort war, kehrt als ein anderer Mensch zurück. Fromme Berichte aus allen Jahrhunderten legen Zeugnis davon ab. Aber was geht in Mekka wirklich vor? Und wie ist es, wenn ein in den USA lebender Professor, der sich seiner muslimischen Frömmigkeit gar nicht so sicher ist, nach Mekka pilgert? Abdellah Hammoudi ist das Wagnis einge...

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Foundations of Monarchical Authority and Forms of Exercise of Power: Toward a Redefinition of the Moroccan Political System 2: Dar-al-Mulk as Discourse and Practice of Power: The Cultural Schemata of Domination and Submission before the Colonial Conquest 3: Master and Disciple: Identifying a Historical Diagram and the Sources of Its Sanctification 4: The Colonial Elaboration of Authoritarianism 5: The Cu...

Esta obra, centrada en la sociedad marroquí inicialmente, incluye los trabajos comparativos de ediciones posteriores entre las sociedades de Marruecos, Argelia y Egipto. La comparación señala tanto las semejanzas como las diferencias. Sin embargo, en sus diferencias, cada experiencia remite a las otras. En el fondo se trata de la crisis que viven estas sociedades en su esfuerzo por reconstituirse como colectividades políticas. La reconfiguraci...