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The book
is organised in two parts and eight chapters. The first part
deals in six chapters with the emergence of the marabouts,
the members of a Muslim religious community living in a fortified
monastery that served both religious and military functions,
on the mystic origins in the Turkish-ottoman period and the
second part addresses the accumulation of wealth in the economy
of the marabouts and the insurgence of the khwân. The
book is well documents and has a brief glossary of Arab and
Turkish words.
Kamel
Filali of El-Ancere (Algeria) received a docteur de'État
from the faculty of history in Strasbourg and teaches at the
university of Constantine. He directs the Laboratoire d'Etude
et de Recherche sur le Maghreb et la Méditerranée
and he is the author of many contributions at international
congresses on cultural history and religious and ethnic movements
in the Southern Mediterranean.
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