ABSTRACT
Feminist studies looking at the role of Islam on Muslim women have paid much attention to the veil and to the segregation of women from male spaces. Speaking to this, Amanullah De Sondy has noted gender subordination and exclusion have become “a means to locate the Muslim man as the centre point of the social world” (80), and Fatma Mernissi has said, “the entire Muslim social structure can be seen as an attack on, and defense against, the disruptive power of female sexuality” (45). From a quite dissimilar perspective, little scholarship has focused on what Maleeha Aslam calls “a collective sentiment of [Muslim men] being marginalized in their own countries and in the global society” (75), and even less scholarship has emphasized an analysis of space as crucial to an understanding of this marginalization. Given Morocco’s peripheral geographic location and post-colonial status vis-a-vis Spain, one might identify Moroccan men as acutely at risk of occupying an especially polemic sphere of inuence, one in question both at home in Morocco and abroad in adopted countries of immigration such as Spain.
