Dionysos à Meknès : les dieux, les corps et la ville chez Miloudi Chaghmoum

This article explores the intersection of the urban, the theological and the mystical in Miloudi Chaghmoum’s novel, Masālik Al-Zaytūn [Routes through the Olive Trees / The Routes of Meknes] through an analysis of the novel’s repeated allusions to the idioms of Sufism and the figure of Dionysus. Chaghmoum’s retelling of a traumatic narrative—namely that of a migrant to Meknes who winds up committing a crime without realizing it—raises key questions regarding the place of the individual in urban space, which emerges as a threatening environment rather than a place of safety.