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Malikism, or How a Legal Rite Became a Matter of State in Morocco

THE MAGHREB THROUGH LANGUAGE  (French original) Ahmed Soussi SEPT. 4 There is something strange, at first glance, about the status of Malikism in Morocco. A school of jurisprudence—that is, a set of methods for deriving legal rules from the Quran and the prophetic tradition—occupies a place there that is reserved elsewhere for political ideologies. The Constitution and official discourse make…

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