Mohammed Maarouf
Biographic Data
| ID | 5664508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammed Maarouf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammed |
| FAMILY NAME | Maarouf |
| SIGNATURE | MAAROUF M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chouaib Doukkali University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The roadmap to the Islamic state
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the online training practices IS sympathisers adopt to recruit, indoctrinate, train, and vet new affiliates. The study highlights the carefully crafted virtual ecosystem established by IS unofficial media operatives, which seeks to identify and select converts with specialised digital skills and unwavering commitment to the group's vision of Islam. Prioritising quality over quantity, the selection…
Jihacktivism
This study explores the main building blocks of participatory activism utilised by sympathisers of the Islamic State within their online media networks. The organisation has named this militant practice "media jihad" or militancy (munasara), which is built on the cultural patterns of traditional ground-based jihad. The practice involves transferring cultural values and war manoeuvres into the virtual ecosystem. The virtual tactics used by sympath…
The cultural construction of sympathiser social identities in the Islamic state’s virtual ecosystem
This study explores the politics of naming in the Islamic state (IS) media networks, looking into how sympathisers’ (munāsir-s) virtual identities are socially constructed online. Naming is a discursive practice which is purely ideological in that when sympathisers name themselves online, they re-imagine their roles and the boundaries of their national belonging alongside cultural representations of the organisation. By naming, they reify IS cult…
Maraboutic Resistance and Popular Culture in the Arab Spring of Morocco
This article examines the hybridity of maraboutic and popular cultural forms in the recent social uprising in Morocco. Adapting a famous Weberian metaphor of the “railroad switch gear,” we display how new revolutionary social potentials are lived out and experienced in old cultural patterns. We argue that for most Moroccan subaltern social groups, meaning and action take place in and through traditional cultural structures, the role of which in t…
Suicide Bombing
This article argues that the radical Islamist conception of martyrdom in the Moroccan case, through a pre-existing fundamental receptive cultural framework, implies an articulation with maraboutic Islam. Moroccos local cultural embedding of martyrdom involves the still-working heritage of maraboutic institutions, beliefs, and practices, as well as the sway of mainstream Islam that conditions and informs the Islamist lived experience of self-sacri…
The Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Practice of Charity in Morocco
It is argued in this paper that Islamism articulates through a fundamental receptive pre-existing cultural framework—always in Muslim countries implying an articulation with popular Islamic ideas and practices. Islamist groups are not alien other(s) but born in the history of the Same, and therefore amenable to be classified in types and recognized in identities. In Morocco, the cultural embedding of Islamist movements involves the still-working …
Saints and Social Justice in Morocco
This ethnography of the saint protector of the High Atlas Sidi Šamharūš explores how Moroccan pilgrims use their own popular idioms of justice to understand and construct their relationship with saints and the political system they represent. Enduring the lack of justice in their social world, Moroccan subalterns go to saints to seek mythic justice. As maraboutic clients, they do not perceive social justice as part of the real world they belong t…
The Islamic Spirit of Capitalism
This article adds to and critiques current debates about the “spirit of capitalism” for being too “top down”, western and elite-oriented. It takes a bottom-end-up and ethnographic cultural perspective to examine the cultural conditions for the formation of willing, low priced labour power in a Moroccan case study example of the “Islamic south”. Tracing how the popular culture of Islam in Morocco provides a reservoir of religious meaning for the f…
Āšūrā' as a Female Ritual Challenge to Masculinity
This paper presents an ethnographic image of 'Āšūrā' delineating how a cultural and religious ritual may play the role of establishing and sustaining cultural hegemony in Morocco. It forwards into a position of prominence the carnivalesque aspect of the ritual. The cultural authority of the male is transgressed, mocked and crushed down by the joyful moment of female becoming in a ritual outlet that permits power to rejuvenate its yoke of dominati…
Chapter Four. The Paradigm Of Authority
The structures of the mythic court at the shrine of Ben Yeffu are epitomized in its design and organization. The square design of the court is intended to play the discursive role of both communication and surveillance within the maraboutic institution. The design of the shrine evinces the institution as a disciplinary apparatus where power is exerted by means of observation. At Ben Yeffu, the mythic court does not only take place during the proc…
Chapter Three. Jinn Eviction And Other Rituals As Discourses Of Power
This chapter analyzes the functioning of the healer-patient's discourse, or in the maraboutic parlance, the healer-jinni's discourse and other discursive forms like the patients' dreams and healers' narratives. Saluting the saint is a ritual in and of itself. It consists of particular ritualised tasks the visitor has to perform in order to accomplish his pilgrimage to the shrine. There are healers who recite the magic formulas while hitting visit…
Chapter One. Local Histories
This chapter explores the history of saint Ben Yeffu from the scattered stories and scarce documents collected at the shrine of Ben Yeffu. It provides a succinct historical account of the maraboutic movement in Morocco. The chapter discusses the problems of saint Ben Yeffu's lineage, and analyzes the founding legends of his sainthood. There is the zawiya as maraboutic state. This is an expanding religious lodge that thrives and becomes more power…
Jinn Eviction as a Discourse of Power
Chapter I: Local Histories: Sharifianism and Power A. Historical Origins, B. The Maraboutic Institution and its Means of Survival, C. The Location of the Saint, D. The Saint's Lineage, E. The Founding Legends, F. Royal Donations (in'am), G. Organization, H. Shrine Income Chapter II: The Buffi Representation of the World of Jinn A. Jinn Attributes, B. Types of Jinn, C. Self vs. Other 1. Magic (sihr), 2. The Evil Eye (l-'ain), 3. The Female Pursuer…
Jinn Eviction as a Discourse of Power
Chapter I: Local Histories: Sharifianism and Power A. Historical Origins, B. The Maraboutic Institution and its Means of Survival, C. The Location of the Saint, D. The Saint's Lineage, E. The Founding Legends, F. Royal Donations (in'am), G. Organization, H. Shrine Income Chapter II: The Buffi Representation of the World of Jinn A. Jinn Attributes, B. Types of Jinn, C. Self vs. Other 1. Magic (sihr), 2. The Evil Eye (l-'ain), 3. The Female Pursuer…
Jihacktivism
This study explores the main building blocks of participatory activism utilised by sympathisers of the Islamic State within their online media networks. The organisation has named this militant practice "media jihad" or militancy (munasara), which is built on the cultural patterns of traditional ground-based jihad. The practice involves transferring cultural values and war manoeuvres into the virtual ecosystem. The virtual tactics used by sympath…
The Islamic Spirit of Capitalism
This article adds to and critiques current debates about the “spirit of capitalism” for being too “top down”, western and elite-oriented. It takes a bottom-end-up and ethnographic cultural perspective to examine the cultural conditions for the formation of willing, low priced labour power in a Moroccan case study example of the “Islamic south”. Tracing how the popular culture of Islam in Morocco provides a reservoir of religious meaning for the f…
Maraboutic Resistance and Popular Culture in the Arab Spring of Morocco
This article examines the hybridity of maraboutic and popular cultural forms in the recent social uprising in Morocco. Adapting a famous Weberian metaphor of the “railroad switch gear,” we display how new revolutionary social potentials are lived out and experienced in old cultural patterns. We argue that for most Moroccan subaltern social groups, meaning and action take place in and through traditional cultural structures, the role of which in t…
Chapter Four. The Paradigm Of Authority
The structures of the mythic court at the shrine of Ben Yeffu are epitomized in its design and organization. The square design of the court is intended to play the discursive role of both communication and surveillance within the maraboutic institution. The design of the shrine evinces the institution as a disciplinary apparatus where power is exerted by means of observation. At Ben Yeffu, the mythic court does not only take place during the proc…
Chapter Three. Jinn Eviction And Other Rituals As Discourses Of Power
This chapter analyzes the functioning of the healer-patient's discourse, or in the maraboutic parlance, the healer-jinni's discourse and other discursive forms like the patients' dreams and healers' narratives. Saluting the saint is a ritual in and of itself. It consists of particular ritualised tasks the visitor has to perform in order to accomplish his pilgrimage to the shrine. There are healers who recite the magic formulas while hitting visit…
Chapter One. Local Histories
This chapter explores the history of saint Ben Yeffu from the scattered stories and scarce documents collected at the shrine of Ben Yeffu. It provides a succinct historical account of the maraboutic movement in Morocco. The chapter discusses the problems of saint Ben Yeffu's lineage, and analyzes the founding legends of his sainthood. There is the zawiya as maraboutic state. This is an expanding religious lodge that thrives and becomes more power…
Jinn Eviction as a Discourse of Power
Chapter I: Local Histories: Sharifianism and Power A. Historical Origins, B. The Maraboutic Institution and its Means of Survival, C. The Location of the Saint, D. The Saint's Lineage, E. The Founding Legends, F. Royal Donations (in'am), G. Organization, H. Shrine Income Chapter II: The Buffi Representation of the World of Jinn A. Jinn Attributes, B. Types of Jinn, C. Self vs. Other 1. Magic (sihr), 2. The Evil Eye (l-'ain), 3. The Female Pursuer…
Āšūrā' as a Female Ritual Challenge to Masculinity
This paper presents an ethnographic image of 'Āšūrā' delineating how a cultural and religious ritual may play the role of establishing and sustaining cultural hegemony in Morocco. It forwards into a position of prominence the carnivalesque aspect of the ritual. The cultural authority of the male is transgressed, mocked and crushed down by the joyful moment of female becoming in a ritual outlet that permits power to rejuvenate its yoke of dominati…
Saints and Social Justice in Morocco
This ethnography of the saint protector of the High Atlas Sidi Šamharūš explores how Moroccan pilgrims use their own popular idioms of justice to understand and construct their relationship with saints and the political system they represent. Enduring the lack of justice in their social world, Moroccan subalterns go to saints to seek mythic justice. As maraboutic clients, they do not perceive social justice as part of the real world they belong t…
The Islamic Spirit of Capitalism
This article adds to and critiques current debates about the “spirit of capitalism” for being too “top down”, western and elite-oriented. It takes a bottom-end-up and ethnographic cultural perspective to examine the cultural conditions for the formation of willing, low priced labour power in a Moroccan case study example of the “Islamic south”. Tracing how the popular culture of Islam in Morocco provides a reservoir of religious meaning for the f…
The Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Practice of Charity in Morocco
It is argued in this paper that Islamism articulates through a fundamental receptive pre-existing cultural framework—always in Muslim countries implying an articulation with popular Islamic ideas and practices. Islamist groups are not alien other(s) but born in the history of the Same, and therefore amenable to be classified in types and recognized in identities. In Morocco, the cultural embedding of Islamist movements involves the still-working …
Suicide Bombing
This article argues that the radical Islamist conception of martyrdom in the Moroccan case, through a pre-existing fundamental receptive cultural framework, implies an articulation with maraboutic Islam. Moroccos local cultural embedding of martyrdom involves the still-working heritage of maraboutic institutions, beliefs, and practices, as well as the sway of mainstream Islam that conditions and informs the Islamist lived experience of self-sacri…
Maraboutic Resistance and Popular Culture in the Arab Spring of Morocco
This article examines the hybridity of maraboutic and popular cultural forms in the recent social uprising in Morocco. Adapting a famous Weberian metaphor of the “railroad switch gear,” we display how new revolutionary social potentials are lived out and experienced in old cultural patterns. We argue that for most Moroccan subaltern social groups, meaning and action take place in and through traditional cultural structures, the role of which in t…
Jihacktivism
This study explores the main building blocks of participatory activism utilised by sympathisers of the Islamic State within their online media networks. The organisation has named this militant practice "media jihad" or militancy (munasara), which is built on the cultural patterns of traditional ground-based jihad. The practice involves transferring cultural values and war manoeuvres into the virtual ecosystem. The virtual tactics used by sympath…
The cultural construction of sympathiser social identities in the Islamic state’s virtual ecosystem
This study explores the politics of naming in the Islamic state (IS) media networks, looking into how sympathisers’ (munāsir-s) virtual identities are socially constructed online. Naming is a discursive practice which is purely ideological in that when sympathisers name themselves online, they re-imagine their roles and the boundaries of their national belonging alongside cultural representations of the organisation. By naming, they reify IS cult…
The roadmap to the Islamic state
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the online training practices IS sympathisers adopt to recruit, indoctrinate, train, and vet new affiliates. The study highlights the carefully crafted virtual ecosystem established by IS unofficial media operatives, which seeks to identify and select converts with specialised digital skills and unwavering commitment to the group's vision of Islam. Prioritising quality over quantity, the selection…
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