Les Murchidât au Maroc. Entre islam d’État et islam au féminin

• Main Author: Karima Dirèche
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université de Provence 2010-12-01
• Series: Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
• Subjects: Islam; Murchidât; feminism
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/6857

Since the murchidât appeared, the religious role of education by women in the public sphere is originally recognized. The State, and hence the national media, present them as a way of spreading a modern and feminist moroccan islam. These new preachers have followed a degree course in the fields of islamic law and social sciences. They are active in prisons, hospitals, professional and associative places where they mainly deal with women. But if we look closer, these social assistants, instructors, guides of the islamic precepts and the new family code, stand in an ambivalent situation. On one side, they are supposed to attest good governance, and on the other side, they promote the religious identity of the country as a protection from the fundamentalist borrowings.