Memory and Presence of Female Saints in Ksar El Kebir (Morocco) : Oral Transmission and Written Tradition (Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib)

An original and relevant study on female sanctity in Morocco that relies both in oral and written hagiographical sources. Memory and Presence of Female Saints in Ksar el Kebir focuses on the local to reflect on the wider and very relevant phenomenon of religious devotion and women in Western Islam.