In this article, we have tried to analyze the punitive systems in 16th
-century Marocco as one element in the political power strategy aimed
at obtaining a monopoly over legitimate violence. From this particular
point of view, we explore the sentences and the forms of execution, t
heir pedagogical and exemplary character, the symbolic meaning of the
physical mark, the discourse on order and disorder, etc., all the whil
e emphasizing the fluidity of the frontier between the legal and margi
nal world.