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Description:: As the worship goes into the late afternoon, the woman playing the tapl begins to play more automatically, without feeling, her mind perhaps somewhere else. The other women gently call her and as her mind returns to worship, she calls on Sheikh Ali. To her left side is the Sheikha’s table, water, sweets, and trashcan.
Date:: 30-Sep-16
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Description:: The female mullah holds in one hand turquoise prayer beads and in another a tissue. Her hands move with her words, opened palm upward: a habitual gesture Muslims make when praying or petitioning God. She names Sheikh Mohammed Jamil Khalisi.
Date:: 30-Sep-16
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Description:: The female mullah holds in one hand turquoise prayer beads and in another a tissue. Her hands move with her words, opened palm upward: a habitual gesture Muslims make when praying or petitioning God. She names Sheikh Mohammed Jamil Khalisi.
Date:: 30-Sep-16
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Description:: The prayer for individual sheikhs continues. The female mullah is seen here in tight focus, moving her hands through the prayer. Several women, including the Sheikha, seem to be whispering or mouthing the words along with the mullah as well as giving the traditional response to the call.
Date:: 30-Sep-16
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Description:: The prayer for individual sheikhs continues, naming Sheikh Abdulrahman, an important leader in the history of the Talabani Tekiye and the Qadiri Order. A young woman learns how to move through the prayers, her mother beside her, demonstrating.
Date:: 30-Sep-16
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Description:: The prayers for individual prophets and sheikhs continues. The sheikha, in her green covering and turquoise head-scarf stands next to the mullah. Several women can be heard in the background singing softly along with the prayers. The mullah names Ahmad Talabani as the women around her continue to touch their eyes, their foreheads.
Date:: 30-Sep-16
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Description:: The prayers for individual prophets and sheikhs continues. The prayers include naming specific sheikhs who have been meaningful in the history and spiritual life of the tekiye. As they pray, the women speak to themselves, “The crown on my head,” and touch their foreheads. They say, “Light of my eyes,” and touch their eyes. It is also possible that certain women in this assembly believe touching a place during prayer heals that place in the body.
Date:: 30-Sep-16
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Description:: The prayers become led by a female mullah, of which the tekiye has three. The prayer becomes more a call and response as the mullah prays for individuals (the founder of the Order, Sheikh Abdul-QadirGaylani, for example) and the congregated women respond by, once more lifting their voices up to God.
Date:: 30-Sep-16
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Description:: As the calling on God continues, it evolves to include swaying and gentle bending: each movement corresponds to an emphatic exhale of breath. Again, the women remain in loose unison. Each woman has her personal approach to the phrasing or the movement, but the general articulation is unified.
Date:: 30-Sep-16
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

Description:: The joy of these prayers is paramount. Joy is part of the worship. Here, that can be clearly seen. This prayer is a prayer of praise for the Sheikha, for her beauty.
Date:: 30-Sep-16
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque

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