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Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco: Drinking the Milk of Trust

Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco: Drinking the Milk of Trust

Driver, Cory Thomas Pechan

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

IslamAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3319787853
ISBN13: 9783319787855
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 25 2018
Pages: 190
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Exploring the roles of Muslim guards and guides in Jewish cemeteries in Morocco, Cory Thomas Pechan Driver suggests that these custodians use performances of ritual and caring acts for Jewish graves for multiple reasons. Imazighen [Berbers] stress their close ties with Jews in order to create a moral self intentionally set apart from the mono-ethically Arab and mono-religiously Muslim Morocco. Other subjects, and particularly women, use their ties with Jewish sites to harness power and prestige in their communities. Others still may care for these grave sites to express grief for a close Jewish friend or adoptive family. In examining these motives, Driver not only documents the flow of material and spiritual capital across religious lines, but also moves beyond Muslim memory of the past on the one hand and Jewish dread of the future on the other to think about the Muslim/Jewish present in Morocco.

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