التنوع الديني و الإثني في موريتانيا و تحديات بناء دولة المواطنة

Abstract EN

The study tackles religious pluralism and ethnic diversity in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania as fundamental determinants often used in resolving the issues of cultural identity, national unity and the restructuring of society in a unanimously acceptable manner to all parties.

In addition, cultural rights are not a rigid entity but a cognitive and principled system that evolves according to societal changes in which the fundamentals of the system develops in line with ambitions to create further improvement and progress.

However, this multi-ethnic coexistence is experienced for a time by Mauritanians and at other times they suffered from conflict and competition – thus, the cultural and intellectual content of the system vacillated between standing for religious rites which call for equal brotherhood and the right of citizenship for all regardless of colour, ethnicity and the feeling of isolationism and religious extremism or separation.

All these happen in the absence of the practice of good governance.

The researcher used the descriptive and historical methods, then the analytical method to assess the positive and negative impacts of the two phenomena.