Het offensief tegen de Zusters van de Broederschap: Vrouwen in de Algerijnse islam

Abstract

Attack on the Sisters of the Brotherhood. Women in Algerian Islam. The relationship between religious conflict and gender is examined in the case of the Soefi Sisters, a religious order of Maraboutic Islam, based on fieldwork conducted in 1981 in the West Algerian town of Maimuna. The history and decline of this order are outlined, and it is argued that the negative stigmatization of the Soefi Sisters originated in the reformist movement of Islam and is oriented not toward the substance of the religious dogma of the sisters, but toward their gender. The reformists view the Maraboutic order as "womanish" and inferior.