Abstract: | This study, based on fieldwork, presents an account of the main structure of the ties between the Sherqawi religious lodge of western Morocco and its clientele, the ideological base for the maintenance of these ties, and how both the actual ties and the values on which they are based have altered and, in turn, have been altered by changing historical and political contexts. In particular, the author is concerned with maraboutism, a predominant Version of Islam as locally received in Morocco. He argues that maraboutism, taken as an implicit ideology, is closely tied to basic Moroccan conceptions of the social order, notably the notion or 'closeness'. Map, notes, ref. |