Interpretive Anthropology and Islam in Morocco Geertz and Eikelman compared. Abstract: The anthropological works on Moroccan society carried out by Clifford Geertz, Hildred Geertz, Lawrence Rosen, Paul Rabinow and Dale Eickelman, represent all an interpretive approach which tried to understand the nature of the Moroccan social system, and to pinpoint the mechanisms of change starting from the concepts of individuals and the cultural representations of their world view and social relationships. Geertz and Eikelman have focused more than the others on studying religious beliefs and practices as a key to understand the Moroccan social system. The purpose of our paper is to show up the main ideas and conclusions of the interpretive approach on Islam in Morocco, through comparison between the books of Geertz and Eickelman, especially Islam Observed and Moroccan Islam. Even if Eickelman rejects the idea of possible existence of an "interpretative school", of which he is a part with the others, we believe that the careful reading of their books clearly shows that what binds these two great anthropologists is much stronger than what separates them. They share a number of methods and analysis. It is true that each of these two great anthropologists of Islam, has his own style in writing and analysis, but they still share the same methods and the same ideas about Islam in Morocco, and that's exactly what we want to demonstrate in detail in this chapter.