René Brunel

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In the 1920s, René Brunel was a French civil servant ( Contrôleur civil suppléant or directeur des services municipaux ) in Meknes in northern Morocco , where the mausoleum of Sidi Mohammed ben Aïssâ (1465–1523), the founder of the popular Islamic Aissaoua (ʿĪsawīya) -Brotherhood is located.

Brunel is the author of important monographs on the Moroccan Sufi orders of the Aissaoua and Heddawa . His work on the religious brotherhood of the Aissaoua is considered an ethnographic classic.

Works

  • Essai sur la confrérie religieuse des' Aîssâoûa au Maroc. 1926
  • Le monachisme errant dans l'Islam. Sidi Heddi et les Heddawa (Publications de l'Institut des Hautes Études Marocaines XLVIII), Paris 1955

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ catalog.bnf.fr : "Contrôleur civil suppléant à Meknès, Maroc (en 1927)"
  2. ^ Hoisington A. William: L'héritage de Lyautey: Noguès et la politique française au Maroc 1936-1943 . 1995 ( online excerpt ), p. 110: "directeur des services municipaux"
personal data
SURNAME Brunel, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French civil servant in Morocco, author of monographs on Moroccan Sufi orders
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century