ملاحظات نقدية حول مخطوط "الدر المهدي لغوثية أبي مهدي" للشيخ أبي رأس الناصري

Abstract EN

At the time when the Turkish administration in mascara region during the second half of the 18th century was waging war against the religious nobility, the only male child of sheikh Sidi Aissa Ben Moussa El Toujini who settled in the plain of Ghriss near Oued Taghia at 20 km of of the south of Mascara was assassinated by a band of the Hashem tribe.

Very painfully struck by the assassination of his son Sida Aissa went to the head of the Bey's office in Bab Ali, but the latter took no action ; Then Sidi Aissa utterly disappointed, wrote a poem (in spoken Arabic) which turned towards Allah, the pious and the virtuous, in the hope that God alone would do him justice.

The present study is devoted to the careful reading of this poem by the revered Sheikh Abi Ras Ennaciri, who in his commentary reveals in more details, the moral and social values of the region of Masacara whose inhabitants lived under the influence of maraboutism