The invention of Sharafism’s traditions in the Moroccan Islam: a study in the genesis of the religious nobility phenomena and its evolution and indications

Abstract

This study deals with the transformations that were passed by the traditions of Sharafism, in the Moroccan Islam, during its path towards devoting itself as a homogeneous social being with a special cultural identity. After they had taken off their doctrinal cover, these traditions became the main legal power over the Moroccan society’s particulars during the 14th and 15th centuries. Consequently, the Sharafism has become the main source of gaining legitimacy and leadership either in the political or the religious field with the coordination of the sanctification and seigniory. So that the Sharafism can achieve this transmission in the identity of the power, it had to work on constructing the ideology of “The Noble Baraka”. In other words, it had to make the Baraka ideological, by using the socio-symbolic value of the traditions of “The Nassab Ash-Sharif”