Death and the Sacred in Ksour Mountains

The title "Mort, Sacré aux Monts des Ksour" (Death, Sacred in the Ksour Mountains) introduces the key themes of this book, and invites the reader to explore the relationship between the spiritual and cultural dimension of death, and the way it has shaped the ksour as architectural and community entities. This second anthropological work focuses on the symbolic history of the Saharan Atlas (Monts des Ksour). The author attempts to show that the tracings are not exclusively geometrical, but are also motivated by the expression of a very lively religious culture. We are in the land of the Ksour mountains. Everywhere, the traditional habitat is a ksar. Chellala Dahrania, Chellala Ghablia, Boussemghoun, Arbaouat, Labiodh Sidi Cheikh, Sidi Hadj Ben Ameur, Kerakda, Mécheria S¿ira, Ghassoul, Brézina, Sidi Hadj Eddin, El Ouiddan, Sfissifa, Boualem, Sidi Ahmed Bel Abbès, El Maya, Khellaf, Sidi Taïfour, Sidi Slimen were all originally Ksour (a ksar is a fortified place in North Africa).