The path in research and the press

The Tariqa Qadiriya Boutchichiya has attracted growing media and academic attention, first in Morocco, then in Europe. This page brings together the historical press coverage, inherited from the archives of tariqa.fr, and the research devoted to the path.

Press review

Portraits and interviews published in the Moroccan press at the turn of the 2000s, when the path was emerging from the discretion in which the years of lead had kept it:

• ‘Sidi Hamza, the living saint’: Zakia Zouanat’s portrait in Le Journal (May 2000)
• ‘A Sufi sage among us’: Faouzi Skali interviewed by Marc Boudet in La Nouvelle Tribune (31 May 2000)
• Sufism in contemporary society: an interview with Faouzi Skali in Le Matin du Sahara (March 2000)
• Sufism and the third millennium: Dr Larbi Rahim’s paper at the Casablanca seminar
• The zawiyas of Fez: a report in the medina
• Royal offerings at the sanctuary of Ibn Mashish: the Sufis of the Kingdom
• Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch: ‘the other face of Islam’, a portrait of Rumi’s translator

Research

The path and its teaching are the object of academic studies, in particular in anthropology and Islamic studies:

• Karim Ben Driss, researcher at IREMAM (Aix-Marseille Université), author of a thesis and several articles on the Boutchichiya
• Francesco Piraino, anthropologist, author of work on the path in Italy and internationally
• Éric Geoffroy, scholar of Islam: numerous articles and books on contemporary Sufism
• Zakia Zouanat, Ibn Mashish, master of al-Shadhili and work on the masters of Morocco
• The thesis of Sidi Mounir al-Qadiri Boutchich, La notion de cœur dans les quatre premiers siècles de l’hégire (EPHE, Paris, 2005), supervised by Pierre Lory
• Patrick Vandamme, work on the brotherhoods in Morocco

In the general press

A few landmarks of national and international coverage:

• Le Monde, January 2017: announcement of Sidi Hamza’s death and portraits
• La Croix, 2016: articles on Sufism in France and the presence of the path
• Jeune Afrique, 2022: the succession within the Boutchich family
• Challenge and Le Matin (Morocco), 2019: the path and its activities, MAP dispatches

The path is also mentioned in the Wikipedia article on the Boutchichiya.

Further reading

• The guides of the path
• The Tariqa Qadiriya Boutchichiya
• Sayings of the masters: the anthology of the tradition