[p2p-research] Sufi States Inside The State:

[Ignacio de castro]

Dear Michel,

first of all sorry for the late response (I have been travelling) and thanks
for these very interesting links and Ugarte´s book. Unfortunatedly at the
present time I have a huge workload ahead and cannot find time for anything
else apart of keeping up to it.

Nevertheless I would be glad to contribute up to the extent of my
possibilities if you go ahead with it. Maybe this is a good subject for
peer-producing an article.


Ignacio




On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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