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Abstract EN

The analysis of interviews with different religious specialists in southern Tunisia makes it quite clear that the conceptions of these informants are affected by the official religious system that either reappeares in the informants’ conceptions in a broken fashion or exerts its influence silently (which, for example, can be shown in the informants’ conception of al-ghayb/ghayb al-muhdath).

It seems that one cannot fully understand what these informants are saying and “doing with words” without considering their position in the religious field and without considering that they are objectively related to agents who belong to the official religious system.