by Geoff | Nov 23, 2019 | Essaouira, Marabout, Morocco, Shrine, Sufi
I Am He Whom I Love I am He whom I love, and He whom I love is I: We are two spirits dwelling in one body. If thou seest me, thou seest Him, And if thou seest Him, thou seest us both. Hussein Ibn Mansur Al Hallaj On the bus recently from Casablanca I was...
by Geoff | Nov 23, 2019 | Essaouira, Marabout, Morocco, Shrine, Sufi, Zaouia
Below is a series of photographs documenting the zaouia and mausoleum of sufi Sidi Abdellah ben Ouasmine located in el Hanchane, a small town in Essaouira Province. Sidi Abdellah ben Ouasmin is the grandson of Sidi Ouasmin, the Sultan of Regraga, found near...
by Geoff | Nov 20, 2019 | Essaouira, Marabout, Morocco, Shrine, Sufi
Some 20 kilometres north of Essaouira is the small village of Moulay Bouzerktoun, named after the Marabout of the same name. His mausoleum/zaouia is part of a mosque complex founded on the top of a cliff looking over the Atlantic ocean. Little seems to be known...
by Geoff | Nov 5, 2019 | Medina, Morocco, Ouezzane, Sherif, Sufi, Wazzan
Green is the colour of Islam and olives; Ouezzane has both in abundance. Its ancient medina, painted green throughout, is testament to both its Sufi heritage, and associated Quranic link with olive trees, and its cultivation of olive trees locally. In the Quran...
by Geoff | Nov 3, 2019 | Dâr Damânah, Hadj Ahmed Ben Abdeslam, Morocco, Ouezzane, Sherif, Sufi, Wazzan, Zaouia
Below are extracts from ‘My Life Story, Emily the Shareefa of Wazan’, the remarkable account of Emily Keene’s marriage to the Sharif of Wazzan, Hadj Ahmed Ben Abdeslam, an exalted and powerful religious leader in Morocco directly descended from...
by Geoff | Oct 23, 2019 | Marabout, Morocco, Shrine, Sufi
Walter Harris, the adventurer and author, in his 19th century travelogue ‘The Land of an African Sultan: Travels in Morocco’, described Ouezzane as “the most fanatical town that Europeans may visit”. Things may have become less frenetic...
