 Holiness and Animals, Jnoun and Baraka: An Anthropological Insight at a Hermeneutic “Dance” between Humans and Other-than-humans in the Moroccan Context 
This article is rooted in an ethnographic enquiry carried out in Moroccan urban settings in the early 2000s with ethnopratitioners. The present reflection attempts to highlight the possible lines of ontological rupture and continuity between humans and non-humans within this Islamic cosmology, which is active in the Moroccan ethnomedical space. The hypothesis is that the illness, be it physical or spiritual, may be defined as an event of cosmological rupture that the ethnopractitioner tries to repair by the mean of an ontological binding which they draw from the baraka, an intangible, ancestral and transgenerational well of blessing, which is distributed in unequal proportions between human and other-than-human individuals and objects. The intervention of animals and spirits – goat, cat or jinn – updates prophetic and agiographical accounts while sketching out a complex network of intercessions capable of activating the baraka. A careful analysis of human-jinn otherness will make it possible to sketch a conception of other-than-human subjectivity which subverts the canons of capsular identity of which the body would be the seat.