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A Boy in Pajamas Holding a Daff, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

A little boy in his pajamas holds a daff while worship continues behind him.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

A Boy Learning to Pray, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

A young boy learns to pray, how to hold his hands, how to hold his head, from looking down the rows of men in worship. The mullah continues to preach in the background. The mullah praises the Caliphates of Rashidin and Caliphs like Abubakir, Omar ibn Khatab, Osman ibn Affan, and Ali ibn Talib. He praises other followers of Islam that can serve as heroes or examples to his congregation.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

A Boy Learning to Pray, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

Another young boy, bowing and swaying, joins the men and boy who are whirling in the center of the room.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

A Boy Learning to Pray, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

A young boy joins the whirling, his head at the prescribed angle. Another young boy remains watching and swaying on the sidelines.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

A Boy Learning to Pray, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

Description:

A very small boy plays the daff, imitating the men around him.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

A Boy with a Daff, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

A small boy brings a daff into the room for worship. The daff, essentially a hand-drum lined with chain links, is a Kurdish instrument that acts as an integral part of Qadiri Sufi worship. While it may look like a musical instrument to a western audience, it is not considered such by worshippers. It is a spiritual sound and a spiritual instrument.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

A Man and His Son Entering for Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

A man holding hands with his son enters the room for worship.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

A Man During the Sermon, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

An old man with certain areas of paralysis touches his face with his hands as he listens to the mullah.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Call and Response, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

A leader of worship calls out prayers and the congregation calls back in a ritual exchange.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Call and Response, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

A leader of worship calls out prayers and the congregation calls back in a ritual exchange. The leader calls on Sheikh Said Ahmad al-Badawi, on the Prophet Mohammad.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Call and Response, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

Description:

A leader of worship calls out prayers and the congregation calls back in a ritual exchange. The leader calls on Sheikh Said Ibrahim Baswqi.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Call and Response, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

Description:

A leader of worship calls out prayers and the congregation calls back in a ritual exchange. The leader calls on Sheikh Ahmad al-Hindi.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Call and Response, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (4)

Description:

The men as their leader of worship calls out prayers and they calls back in a ritual exchange. The leader calls on Sheikh Abdulrahman Khalisi.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Call and Response, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (5)

Description:

A moment of call and response. As the names of God—the Merciful, for instance—are called out, men gently hit their hearts with their hands.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Call and Response, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (6)

Description:

A moment of call and response. As the many names of God—the Merciful, for instance—are called out, men gently hit their hearts with their hands.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Children in the Tekiye, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

A little boy sits on his mother’s lap, playing with her phone as she prays. In past visits to the tekiye, this same boy crept onto his mother’s lap, between her and the daff as she continued to play.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Motion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

While jumping is more rare in this tekiye than swaying, bowing, head-banging or whirling, it occurs. Mostly as the worship reaches its spiritual peaks, men begin to throw themselves into the motions, letting their heads loll side-to-side, letting their bodies leave the ground.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Motion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

Over the course of the worship, each individual moves through whichever physical form of worship calls to him. Some keep their hair covered, some unleash it. Some begin by swaying and move into bowing or whirling. Some begin in whirling and move to bowing. It is a fluid and individuated practice.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Motion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

Description:

Two men, who moved away from the wall just moments ago, hand in hand, unfurl their hair from their caps and begin to bow and head-bang to a chorus of “Allah! Allah!” or “God! God!” One of the men has a telltale mark on his forehead, what is known as a “zabib,” or “raisin,” in Arabic: a raised bruise on his forehead from praying and prostrating vigorously.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Motion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

Description:

Men worship, calling and responding. The caller wanders the room.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Motion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (4)

Description:

The last, most physically intensive phase of the worship includes a press toward the daff and tapl players as well as more physically emotive movement: running, jumping, and more head-banging.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Motion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (5)

Description:

Two men, who moved away from the wall just moments ago, hand in hand, unfurl their hair from their caps and begin to bow and head-bang to a chorus of “Allah! Allah!” or “God! God!” One of the men has a telltale mark on his forehead, what is known as a “zabib,” or “raisin,” in Arabic: a raised bruise on his forehead from praying and prostrating vigorously.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Motion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (6)

Description:

As the worship reaches its apex, all gather toward the daff and tapl, all join into the more ecstatic motions.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Motion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (7)

Description:

As the women worship, some sing, some have instruments in their hands, others sway gently, some clap as a form of movement and participation. Throughout the worship, the Sheikha sits at the center, listening, greeting everyone, and occasionally adding her voice.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Three men stand in the alcove of the room for worship. They introduce the sound and rhythm of both the daff and the tapl to the devotion.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

Three men stand in the alcove of the room for worship. They introduce the sound and rhythm of both the daff and the tapl to the devotion. To the side, stands the Sheikh, a son of Sheikh Yusuf, who normally offers spiritual leadership and direction to the tekiye. He is absent on this day to seek treatment in Germany for a threatening condition.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

Description:

From this angle, both forms of percussion are obvious: the tapl and daff. Three men play the daff while one stands at the tapl. The daff makes sound as the fingers hit the taut skin, but also as it is dropped. The chain links that line the inside of the frame brush against the frame and skin creating their own sound.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

Description:

From this angle, it’s very easy to see the chain links inside the daff and how the rising and falling motion of the drum activates that part of its sound.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (4)

Description:

Beside the daff, in stationary position, is the tapl, a second kind of drum struck with two wooden sticks.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (5)

Description:

A man plays daff, winding down a prayer, as others play and sway around him.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (6)

Description:

A man plays daff, the chain links obviously in time with the prayer, as worshippers move in front of him.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (7)

Description:

As the men continue to play the daff, a worshipper begins the ecstatic practice of bending all the way forward and backward, swinging his long white hair with him. He supports himself with a cane. This practice will look familiar to any heavy metal fan; it is essentially spiritual head-banging.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (8)

Description:

A close look at the daff reveals the many chain links inside the frame or rim of the instrument that give it a brushing or swishing sound as well as the quick, struck sound of fingers on taut skin.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (9)

Description:

The tapl, braced only against some cushions, not secured in the wooden frame the men have, needs periodic readjustment by the player. She braces it, at times, with one stick, while striking it with the other.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (10)

Description:

A woman, seen over her shoulder, keeps the pace intensifying with the daff. Traditionally, the daff is made with a wooden frame and animal skin stretched across it. This daff has a plastic “skin” that has become translucent in places over the years it has served worshippers, both men and women.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (11)

Description:

Percussion continues.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (12)

Description:

At this distance, it’s easy to see the repair work that has been done on the daff with tape, the turquoise prayer beads strung around one woman’s wrist, the clear rhythm the tapl player provides as she sings and how she balances the tapl against cushions. The woman sings, “The children of the Prophet, my life, and my religion.”

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (13)

Description:

Inside the arrangement of seated women, the woman draped in green claps along with the tapl and daff. It is unusual to see a religious woman in a religious setting have painted nails. The paint cannot be considered clean even after an ablution, so it is general forgone. Not only is she wearing nail polish, but it is pink.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (14)

Description:

Clapping can be energetic, but also a simple motion of time keeping, as seen here. The clap this woman makes is not so much a noise as a movement to stay in time with the daff and tapl. The prayer repeats, “Oh, my beautiful sheikh, it is not in my hands. I miss you greatly.”

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (15)

Description:

Cushions and fabric balance the tapl. The skin of the tapl is actually a little punctured, but still it booms with each tap of the sticks. This prayer describes a beauty dressed in various types of Kurdish clothes.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (16)

Description:

One daff, with transparent plastic where traditionally a stretched animal skin would be, allows the viewer to see the singers and other prayer-leaders through the instrument itself. Below the daff is the prayer notebook, open.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (17)

Description:

The daffs change hands frequently in the women’s worship. The woman who just moments before was playing the transparent daff is now playing a worn, patched, animal-skin daff. It is remarkable how much use these instruments see and how, no matter their state of use, they contribute to the sound of prayer.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (18)

Description:

The inside of the daff is lined with thin chain links that make it percuss in several ways that the player can isolate or combine.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (19)

Description:

The daff one woman holds here has been patched with duct tape and shows that each player has held the instrument in the same place, wearing a clear patch the size of approximately four fingers in the opaque plastic covering.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (20)

Description:

At the center of the seated worshippers, the daffs are handed around, the Sheikha listens, the women trade roles as lead singer and chorus.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Ecstatic Percussion, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (21)

Description:

At the center of the seated worshippers, the daffs are handed around, the Sheikha listens, the women trade roles as lead singer and chorus. Out the window, the viewer can vaguely see the detritus of the tekiye, a working hostel and refuge for those who need food or a place to stay in the city.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

External Aspect, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

The Talabani Tekiye, external aspect.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Mawlood, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Today’s filming coincided with a mawlood, a celebration in honor of the Prophet. Someone in the congregation, in honor of a desire or prayer he or she has, buys the mawlood for the gathered worshippers. The mawlood includes special celebratory food that is dispersed at the conclusion of worship in a particular order: nougat, cookies, juice. Here, we see the nougat being passed out.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Mawlood, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

As the juice is handed out, the women playing daff and tapl take miniature breaks to accept the drinks. The singer, though, does not stop. Other women accept the juice for her and place it near her for when there is the right moment in the worship.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men and Boys Praying Together, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Men and boys in their own motions, in their own space, worship side-by-side.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men and Boys Praying Together, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

While men and boys continue to whirl and bow, a young man takes over playing the tapl.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men and Boys Praying Together, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

Description:

Men and boys of all ages throw themselves into the worship. Though children are cherished in this tekiye, they are explicitly encouraged not to come to the worship too young. The path of a Sufi must be consciously chosen, not indoctrination. Sheikh Yusuf, the spiritual leader has said, “When we find children here, we say, ‘Go home! Read a book!’ But they sneak in…”

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men and Boys Praying Together, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

Description:

The young and the elderly worship side by side.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Ablution, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

One man completes his ablution while another remains mid-ablution.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Ablution, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

A man completes the washing of his face and head.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Ablution, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

Description:

A man completes the washing of his arms and hands, the final stage for him in his ablution, and stands.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Some men, praying, raising their hands to call on God. A man in front, other men behind. They raise their hands as the prayer draws to a close, and they wish to offer up their individual prayers. A man audibly calls on God by his many names. The mullah beings to speak.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

Another man raises his hand in prayer. The sheikh names and praises key figures in Islam and in Qadiri Sufism. After each name, as is common practice, the man raises his hands to his face and gently exhales with the word, “Amen,” to ensure the prayer will reach God.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

Description:

The men begin to line up for prayers. Some men gesture for another to join them, making space for him between them. The mullah emphasizes, “We should believe in no god except God and Muhammad as his prophet.”

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

Description:

The prayer begins with simple, but powerful praise, “God is great.”

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (4)

Description:

Men, mid-prayer.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (5)

Description:

Men, as prayer draws to a close.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (5)

Description:

Men, mid-prayer.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (7)

Description:

Men, as prayer draws to a close.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (8)

Description:

Men, beginning prayer.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (9)

Description:

Men at prayer.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (10)

Description:

Men at prayer.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (11)

Description:

Men at prayer. One man counts his prayers on his fingers, “Astaghfirula, Subhanalla, la illa ila Allah Akhbar,” while another bows in prayer.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (12)

Description:

The worship further intensifies.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (13)

Description:

It is not uncommon for men to clasp hands in worship, as is seen here. In the final moments of the worship, the percussion’s tempo increases and the men respond with fervor.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (14)

Description:

It is not uncommon for men to clasp hands in worship, as is seen here. In the final moments of the worship, the percussion’s tempo increases and the men respond with fervor. The men move individually and in lines joined at the hands.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men at Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (15)

Description:

The circular pattern winds around the room until, once more, men line the walls, gently swaying and stepping.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men During the Sermon, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Inside the tekiye, people sit and listen to the sermon. In the background is the mullah’s voice. He speaks of examples to help people live better and think differently than their context.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men During the Sermon, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

A boy sits and listens as the mullah preaches about the difference between forgetting and remembrance, the science of each.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men During the Sermon, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

Description:

The mullah speaks directly to the assembled worshippers referencing Abdul Qadir Gaylani, the founder of the Qadiri Order, which the Talabani Tekiye follows.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men During the Sermon, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

Description:

A man with his white beard listens with others to the sheikh. In deference to Kirkuk’s diversity, the language of the sermon is in Arabic. In other Kurdish-held cities such as Sulaimani or Erbil, the sermons would likely be in Kurdish. The mullah ends the sermon by affirming that there is no god to be worshipped except God and that Muhammed is the final prophet.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men During the Sermon, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (4)

Description:

Men and boys listen to the sheikh.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men During the Sermon, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (5)

Description:

A young boy prays as the sheikh speaks. He wears a t-shirt with army print that portrays Kurdish colors and a soldier. He sneaks a peek at the cameraman and then dedicates himself once more to his prayers.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men Emerging from Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Men and boys exit the room for worship, putting their shoes back on and walking out into the tekiye’s courtyard.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men Emerging from Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

Two men come out from the mosque after they have finished their worship.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men Entering for Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Shoes are removed before men enter for prayer and are stored in the anteroom to the room for worship. As prayer concludes, men return to their shoes.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men Entering for Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

Shoes are removed before men enter for prayer and are stored in the anteroom to the room for worship.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men Entering the Talabani Tekiye for Worship, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Men enter the tekiye as the Quran is read over the minaret’s loudspeaker. Inscribed over the gate the men enter are the phrases, “Majidiya Mosque, Talabani Tekiye, “Those who believe, and whose hearts find satisfaction in the remembrance of Allah: for without doubt in remembrance of Allah do hearts find satisfaction” (Quran, Ar-Ra’d, 28:13).

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men Enter the Room for Worship, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Men begin to enter the room for worship. A father helps his son up the steps.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men Enter the Room for Worship, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

Men begin to enter the room for worship. An older man, walking with a cane, is helped up the stairs.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men Exchanging Greetings Before Worship, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Men greet each other in the courtyard of the tekiye as the call to prayer sounds in the background.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:

Over the shoulder of a man, we see him, like the worshippers around him, begin to sway to the voice of the mullah.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (1)

Description:

Men continue to sway and begin to blend the earlier call and response with the current side-to-side motion.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

Description:

Several men in this motion, with these strong exhales and swaying.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

Description:

From the perspective of the inner circle of men, focused on the mullah singing, we see the early phases of the worship: swaying and the emphatic exhale.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (4)

Description:

The head-banger.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (5)

Description:

In addition to swaying, bending, and head-banging, worshippers often whirl, as in Turkish and other traditional depictions of Sufis lost in prayer. Here, we see many different kinds of worship in one frame.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (6)

Description:

Other men join the man worshipping.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (7)

Description:

In addition to swaying, bending, and head-banging, worshippers often whirl, as in Turkish and other traditional depictions of Sufis lost in prayer. Here, we see many different kinds of worship in one frame. Each man speaks only one word, “Live.”

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (8)

Description:

In addition to swaying, bending, and head-banging, worshippers often whirl, as in Turkish and other traditional depictions of Sufis lost in prayer. Here, we see many different kinds of worship in one frame.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (9)

Description:

While some men whirl and others play the daff or tapl and others lead the singing, many men line the walls, swaying in a more restricted motion.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (10)

Description:

A man sings in the inner circle of prayer-leaders. Within that circle, a man whirls.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (11)

Description:

The inner circle, a group of men who lead the singing, includes a man whirling, but also the singer who teaches others the scales and songs of the tekiye.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (12)

Description:

The pace of the worship has intensified. Over the shoulder of the tapl player, men and boys sway, bow, and whirl.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Men in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (13)

Description:

Over the shoulder of a daff player, a head-banging man begins to call out.

Date:

30-Sep-16

Resource Type:

moving image

Collection:

Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque