[p2p-research] Sufi States Inside The State:

[Michel Bauwens]

 here's another suggestion, dear Ignacio:

Sufi States Inside The State:

http://www.moroccoboard.com/viewpoint/119-sarah-zaaimi-/1113--sufi-states-inside-the-state-

"Some Sufi orders for religious and historical reasons succeeded in founding
autonomous states inside other sovereign states. In Senegal for instance,
many clerical city-states and Jihadi villages emerged as independent beings
following some particular historical events. These city-states in Senegambia
enjoy total autonomy from the central state, and run their territories as
independent structures in all fields. In Kurdistan, the Sufi Derwish in
Boiveh has a total control over their religious ceremonial lives and
autonomous running of their administration and services. Yet, the Boiveh
Derwish brotherhood can’t be considered fully as a state because it is still
undergoing many pressures by the Iranian state and has no historical
impregnation in time.

This paper will examine the characteristics of two main Senegambian
autonomous regions: Touba and Pakao. The fist is a Sufi city-state of the
Mouride brotherhood; the second is a region were autonomous Jihadi villages
that run themselves in a local kind of organization. It would try to see if
Touba and Pakao can be called States. Then, it would try to analyze the
features of the Boiveh Derwish community with regards to modern state
characteristics. This paper would focus mostly on the ceremonial, the
economic and the administrative aspects of autonomy in the three studied
cases.
The Example Of Touba"


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