Memory and Presence of Female Saints in Ksar El Kebir (Morocco) : Oral Transmission and Written Tradition

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.

Rachid El Hour (1968), University of Salamanca, is Full Professor or Arabic and Islamic Studies. He has published numerous studies on Islamic law and hagiographic literature in Western Islam. He is the author of several relevant monographies including Hagiografías, sufismo, santos y santidad en el Norte de África península ibérica (Helsinki, 2020) and La organización judicial de los almorávides en al-Andalus(Helsinki, 2006).

Manuela Marín (1946) served as Full Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), until her retirement in 2011. She has published monographs and many articles on the religiosity and society of al-Andalus and Western Islam, paying special attention to women. Among her publications, Las mujeres en al-Andalus (Madrid: CSIC, 2000) and Testigos coloniales: españoles en Marruecos (1860-1956), (Barcelona: Ediciones Bellaterra, 2015).