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The page covers the sebsi, the long-stemmed pipe in which kif is smoked in Morocco: the word and its spellings, the stem and the bowl, how kif is smoked in it, its history from the 1860s to its decline after the 1960s, and the law on kif use. Kif itself is covered on Kif, and cannabis in the country on Cannabis in Morocco. The South Asian clay pipe is covered on Chilam.
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Spellings
- The pipe: sebsi (Harrell 1966; Bellakhdar 2013; Chouvy 2022), sibsi (Meakin 1902), sibsa (Joseph 1975), sebti (Afsahi 2017). The bowl: shkaf (Meakin 1902), shqöf (catalogue of the Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm).
- Harrell's dictionary (p. 156) glosses the bowl word as "fragment, broken piece (glass, pottery, china)" and "bowl (of smoking pipe, usually of clay)". The article gives these two senses.
Origin of the word
- Chouvy (2022) states that sebsi and tbisla are of Turkish origin and were "probably" introduced after the capture of Fez in 1554, citing his own earlier work (Chouvy 2020). The article gives the derivation as his.
The length of the tube and the heat of the bowl
- Bellakhdar (2013, p. 113) and Afsahi (2017, p. 102) give the same requirements, in nearly the same words: a tube neither too long nor too short, so that the smoke leaves its tar without cooling, and a bowl of good refractory clay that can reach 800 to 1,000 °C. Afsahi cites her own earlier work for them. The article attributes them to Bellakhdar.
- Afsahi's informant (p. 102) is the source only for the woods of the stem (olive, apricot).
The end of the monopoly's kif sales
- Afsahi (2017, p. 106, note 8) dates the dahir that ended the sale of kif by the Régie des Tabacs et du Kif to 1953. The prohibiting dahir printed in the Bulletin Officiel (no. 2167, 7 May 1954) is dated 24 April 1954. The article follows the Bulletin Officiel.