La cátedra (<i>kursī ‘ilmī</i> o <i>kursī li-l-wa‘ẓ wa-l-iršād</i>) en Marruecos

Nadia Erzini; Stephen Vernoit

doi:10.3989/alqantara.2013.004

Authors

Nadia Erzini
Stephen Vernoit

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2013.004

Keywords:

Professorial chair, Morocco, Mosque, Education, Liturgical furniture

Abstract

Moroccan congregational mosques are equipped with a minbar (pulpit) which is used for the Friday sermon. Many mosques in Morocco are also equipped with one or more smaller chairs, which differ in their form and function from the minbar. These chairs are used by professors to give regular lectures to students of traditional education, and by scholars to give occasional lectures to the general public. This tradition of the professorial chair was probably introduced to Morocco from the Middle East in the thirteenth century. Most of the existing chairs in Morocco seem to date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and they continue to be made and used today. The chairs always have two steps, a seat, a backrest and armrests. This form probably evokes the original minbar of the Prophet in Medina, which had two steps and a seat, and this is one of many aspects of the conservatism and se parate evolution of Moroccan Malikism.

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