State, Mosques, and their Custodians in Morocco

Volume 1|Issue 2| Summer 2012 |Theme of the Issue

Abstract

What role do mosques play in people’s daily lives, and how is it possible to institute a reading that observes the relationship between the powers that run them and the authorities? This fieldwork needs to draw up a map of the network of mosques and how the functionaries have changed in comparison with the past of this institution of worship. There is also a need to extrapolate a formulation that corrects the pluralist doctrinal influence over the performance of mosques and the development of their tasks by observing the change to the job of imam (al-qayyim) and the avenues resorted to in carrying out their religious profession which ultimately delineates the features of official policy and the public activity undertaken by religious functionaries.

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Researcher in the Sociology of Religion, Arab Center for the Social Sciences, Casablanca.

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