Research:2009-01-01/Journal article/la-culture-du-cannabis-au-maroc-entre-léconomie-et-le-religieux

Research record1 January 2009Journal article

La culture du cannabis au Maroc : entre l'économie et le religieux

Khalid Mouna

Théologiques · 2009

Anthropological study of the Ketama of the central Rif and the place of kif production in the region's economy, asking how cannabis cultivation came to flourish under a religious monarchy. Mouna argues that Islamic prohibition of intoxicants bears in practice on alcohol, cannabis being named in neither Quran nor hadith. He traces the jurisprudential space this leaves, dates a mystical use in Morocco from the sixteenth century and centres the account on the Haddawa, the confraternity of Sidi Heddi in the western Rif, whose members he describes as obliged to smoke cannabis. He advances the hypothesis that the sect's Ismaili filiation and Ketama's own historic relation with the Fatimid dynasty together explain both the arrival of cultivation in the tribe and its religious legitimation. Concerns the religious framing of cannabis in the Rif; agronomy is outside its scope.

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Published1 Jan 2009

TypeJournal article

VenueThéologiques

Year2009

DOI10.7202/039504ar

CountryMorocco

Growing regionRif Mountains

SourceDOI

2009-01-01 2026-08-12 La culture du cannabis au Maroc : entre l'économie et le religieux Journal article Khalid Mouna Théologiques 2009 10.7202/039504ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/039504ar Anthropological study of the Ketama of the central Rif and the place of kif production in the region's economy, asking how cannabis cultivation came to flourish under a religious monarchy. Mouna argues that Islamic prohibition of intoxicants bears in practice on alcohol, cannabis being named in neither Quran nor hadith. He traces the jurisprudential space this leaves, dates a mystical use in Morocco from the sixteenth century and centres the account on the Haddawa, the confraternity of Sidi Heddi in the western Rif, whose members he describes as obliged to smoke cannabis. He advances the hypothesis that the sect's Ismaili filiation and Ketama's own historic relation with the Fatimid dynasty together explain both the arrival of cultivation in the tribe and its religious legitimation. Concerns the religious framing of cannabis in the Rif; agronomy is outside its scope. Morocco Rif Mountains