Sectes, et utopies

Encore un pas dans la série des conversions (majoritaires comme minoritaires), fragments, dissent, sectes : utopies.
Geertz Islam Obs 31, sur la crise maraboutique au Maroc des 15e et 16e siècles,

Morocco splintered ... into a collection of larger and smaller polities centered around holy men of one sort or another... -- a proliferation of zealous, insular, intensely competitive hagiocracies, sometimes called maraboutic states, though most of them were more like utopian communities, agressive..., than proper states.