Politics and Religion in Morocco: The Dialectic of the Sultan and the Furqan - Hassan Aourid

The religious factor in the Arab world, and indeed in the Islamic world, continues to express symptoms of an incomprehensible modernity, or symptoms of indigestion. This situation is circumvented by flirting with the collective ego, but it leads to a dead end. This impasse is what may pave the way to political modernity. This will not be done by borrowing or reproducing Western modernity, but by answering an internal challenge. The case of Morocco seems instructive. Morocco is approaching the Turkish experience without being exposed to the tremors that the modern history of Turkey has known, from the Sublime Porte to the Kemalist experience that forgave the Ottoman heritage, as the new Ottomanism seeks to resurrect this heritage and breathe life into it. Morocco is living an experience without severance. Its history as well as its geography prepare it for a quiet development, but geography does not do more than suggest and the person has to decide.

Number of pages - 232