This book concerns the descendants of a Moroccan marabout, Sidi Lahsen Lyusi, collectively known as the wlad Siyyed ("children of the saint"), who live in a small village near Sefrou, Morocco. Paul Rabinow describes how the wlad sivved have maintained their symbolic and practica…
"In four brief chapters I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two quite contrasting civilizations, the Indonesian and the Moroccan." [Pre…
Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem conceptually and providing an overview of the two countries. He then traces the evolution of their classical religious styles which, with disparate settings and unique histories, produced strikingly different spiritual clim…