Ouguir, A.

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This doctoral thesis deals with female religious agents in Morocco’s past and present. More specifically, it investigates historical women saints and their reception today by Moroccan women in general and by Moroccan feminist activists in particular. Despite the fact that women saints impacted their communities and marked Moroccan history with their legacy, little is known about them. Their lives, practices, and participation in their religious communities and society are rarely studied by social scientists. This thesis addresses women saints’ construction of sainthood within the context of Islam as a religion and Sufism as the mystical dimension of that religion and the significance of this construction for broader discourses on gender and feminism in Morocco. The results of this research challenge the conventional image of passive Moroccan Muslim women and the depiction of women as victims of patriarchal religious ideologies. Instead, this thesis draws an alternative discourse that presents women, whether in the past or in the present, as religious agents, who are actively engaged in creating, re-defining, re-interpreting and transforming their religious roles both in the private and the public sphere

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UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl)UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository)Female religious agents in Morocco: Old practices and new perspectivesOuguir, A.Publication date2013Link to publicationCitation for published version (APA):Ouguir, A. (2013). Female religious agents in Morocco: Old practices and new perspectives.[Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam].General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s)and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an opencontent license (like Creative Commons).Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, pleaselet the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the materialinaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letterto: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Youwill be contacted as soon as possible.Download date:09 Mar 2023           Female Religious Agents in Morocco:  Old Practices and New Perspectives     Aziza Ouguir                       

Female religious agents in Morocco: Old practices and new perspectives

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Female religious agents in Morocco: Old practices and new perspectives

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