Abstract
Chaouen is known as Sacred and Mysterious, a city of Saints and Sǔrfa because of its great number of shrines and its historically deeply-rooted traditions of mysticism. In Chaouen wedding of bride is preceded by a day at hammam: all women of family or close to family gather on that day to take bride to hammam, at groom's expense. Henna appears frequently in woman's stories. The henna plant, produces a dye which gives a reddish-orange color of varying intensity. It was known and used in ancient Egypt, and subsequently by Muslims, who call it nūr n-nbi the light of Prophet. Maxzən appears in man's stories, and alludes to central Government and everything connected with it, including Sharīfian administration. The Jewish community in Chaouen had close links to larger one in Tetuan.Keywords: Chaouen; Egypt; henna; Jewish community; Maxzən
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