[p2p-research] Sufi States Inside The State:

[Michel Bauwens]

hi ignacio,

i'm similarly travellign so let's see if anyone else is inspired ...

othewise, i'd be happy to wait for a better moment, there is no hurry

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Ignacio de castro <ignactro at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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> 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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