Search

Browse items

–

Current results range from 1305 to 2017

View distribution

Search Constraints

You searched for: Language Arabic ✖Remove constraint Language: Arabic
Start Over

240 Catalog Results

Number of results to display per page
View results as:
List Created with Sketch. List View List Gallery Created with Sketch. Gallery View Gallery

Search Results

Women Seated in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (6)

Description:
Sheikha Sunbul gives a smile as she leads the woman to sit and transition between types of worship. Two women help another who has become wrapped up in her worship to find her place sitting. The throes of ecstasy remain with her even as she sits. The murmured prayers all in Arabic, the casual chatting is in Kurdish.
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
Women Seated in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (6)

Women Seated in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

Description:
The woman, draped in her green and gold cloth, sits swaying in her chair as the women beside her circle and call out in prayer. The camera’s view this time shows a bit more of the women who are singing and moving through the prayers as a group. As well, circling through the camera’s viewpoint are a woman and her child, who hasn’t yet learned the motions.
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
Women Seated in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

Women Seated in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:
A man or a woman, when physically overcome by the worship, will often find a corner or a chair in which to sit and continue their prayer in whatever way they can. A woman here has done just that. The worship goes on around her and she throws herself into it still, only from a seated position. The women recite together, “Our everlasting sheikh is Talabani,” in homage to the spiritual leadership and financial backing of the family who created and maintains this tekiye.
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
Women Seated in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Women Mid-Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (8)

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
Women Mid-Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (8)

Women Mid-Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

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
Women Mid-Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (2)

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

Description:
The concluding moment of the prayer includes the interruption of the chant, cries to God, and the dissolution of the circle. Women now make their way to the edges of the room to sit and continue praying together, but more through song than motion. As women move around, they readjust their scarves, their dresses for the next phase of worship.
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
Women in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (13)

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

Description:
The women move in a circle around the prayer leaders and those who have gone ecstatic in their movements. The woman draped in green continues her motions from the plastic lawn chair in the corner. Women on couches and the floor, lining the wall of the room, echo the motions and prayers of the women in the center of the room. Here, the women repeat, “There is no god but God.”
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
Women in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (9)

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

Description:
The air conditioning ruffles the edges of her scarf as Sheikha Sunbul Umjunayd leads and participates in the prayer. This viewpoint is from inside the circle of worshipping women who spin around the Sheikha and other worshippers who are in an ecstatic mode. The prayer acknowledges the call from Baghdad, where Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gaylani founded the Qadiri Order, and where the mosque he founded remains in operation today. As well, as the women reach a subconscious or transcendent state, they often forsake the common prayer for exclamations, often, “Allah! Allah!”
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
Women in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (7)

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

Description:
A woman sits in the corner, draped in green cloth printed with gold mosques. Green, a holy color to Islam, is generally used in cemeteries or at shrines. Her hair is wrapped in a white cloth and her motion is restrained, but her eyes are closed and she has separated herself from the circling women. The prayer continues to consist mostly of praise for the beloved sheikhs of the order.
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
Women in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (5)

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

Description:
As the rhythmic movement continues, the transcendence or ecstasy begins to descend on individual women. One woman, recognizing another’s ecstasy, pulls her from outside the circle into it, allowing her the space to move differently than the women around her. The women continue to praise the Prophet, but call, too, on additional holy individuals, such as Sheikh Ahmed Bustani, for grace.
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
Women in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

Women and Girls Praying Together, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:
A young woman participates in the worship while a little girl, across the circle, joins in beside her mother. 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 an indoctrination. Sheikh Yusuf, the spiritual leader has said, “When we find children here, we say, ‘Go home! Read a book!’ But they sneak in…” Another consideration for some women in this circle is childcare. As this tekiye is the only in Kirkuk to offer sermons and prayers in all the languages of Kirkuk, many refugees or internally displaced people attend services. A woman alone with her child, separated from her family, may have no choice but to keep her son or daughter with her.
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
Women and Girls Praying Together, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Wasilisho

Description:
SWAHILI: Hati hizi ziliandikwa na Ustadh Mau alipotembelea Italia. Katika kulinganisha shairi la mwanamke wa kiarabu anayeitwa Umamah bint Al-Harith Al-Shaybany na mwanamke wa kibajuni anayeitwa Mwana Kupona binti Bwana Mataka. Wote waliishi nyakati tofauti na walitokea familia tofauti ilhali waliandikia wasichana wao shairi lenye funzo moja kuhusiana na kuchunga na kuwa heshimu mabwana zao.<br>ENGLISH: These are notes written by Ustadh Mau for a conference in Naples, Italy. He was comparing the poems of an Arab woman by the name of Umamah Bint Al-Harith Al-Shaybany and a poem by a Bajuni woman named Mwana Kupona bint Bwana Mataka. Both women lived during different periods and had differing backgrounds, yet both wrote a similar poem for their daughters on how to live with and please their husbands.
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA)
Wasilisho

"Universal" Notebook

Description:
A spiral notebook with the printed title "Universal" in English. The notebook contains a handwritten copy of a book. The notebook has the printed title "Universal" in English, but in Arabic it is a "university" notebook, mistranslated into English. The contents include Islamic fiqh. An unfinished drawing is at the end.
Date:
Between 1980 and 1989
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
A Prisoner’s Life in Abu Ghraib
Middle East & North Africa Collections
"Universal" Notebook

The Sheikha, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:
The Sheikha is a Turcoman, fluent in Turcoman, Arabic, Kurdish, and English. Her husband, Sheikh Yusuf Talabani, married her though she did not come from a Sheikh family. Given social and religious pressures, this indicates a personal understanding and choice of the Sheikha’s gifts, which are many. During this particular visit to the tekiye, the Sheikh was away, receiving treatment in Germany for a grave illness. The Sheikha stayed to support their community, to carry on the work of worship, but her concern for her husband made speech, at one point, difficult.
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
The Sheikha, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

The Graves of Sheikhs Associated with the Talabani Tekiye, Shrines, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:
The graves of sheikhs associated with the tekiye are inside the building, a shrine for devotees to visit. A verse from the Quran is written, Ayat al Kursi, or the Verse of the Throne, “In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Allah! There is no God but He, the Living, the Self-subsisting, the Eternal. No slumber can seize Him, nor sleep. All things in heaven and earth are His. Who could intercede in His presence without His permission? He knows what appears in front of and behind His creatures. Nor can they encompass any knowledge of Him except what he wills. His throne extends over the heavens and the earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them, for He is the Highest and Most Exalted” (2:255).
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
The Graves of Sheikhs Associated with the Talabani Tekiye, Shrines, Kirkuk, 2016

"Sumer" Notebook

Description:
Prisoners used a discarded laundry detergent box to create a cover for a notebook filled with lined writing paper and bound with a piece of blue yarn inserted into two holes and tied in the back. The face of the woman in the picture on the cover has been worn or scraped away. Between numbered pages 42 and 43, there is a separate paper inserted with a note. The notebook contains a handwritten copy of a book that a prisoner wrote before going to prison. In prison, others copied it so they could have their own. The title of the book is written on page 1, Iḥyāʾ Ulum al-Dīn by the Imam Abu Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, part one. The title of the book is different than the content. The author of the book was not actually al-Ghazālī, who was Sunni, but Muhammad Baqr al-Sadr, who was Shiʿi and whose book was banned outside of prison.
Date:
Between 1980 and 1989
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
A Prisoner’s Life in Abu Ghraib
Middle East & North Africa Collections
"Sumer" Notebook

"Sumer 2" Notebook

Description:
Prisoners used a discarded laundry detergent box to create a cover for a notebook. The faces of the women on the cover have been covered by pen scribbling. The notebook contains a handwritten copy of a book that a prisoner wrote before going to prison. In prison, others copied it so they could have their own. The notebook contains a handwritten copy of Iḥyāʾ Ulum al-Dīn by the Imam Abu Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, part two. The title of the book is written on page 1. The title of the book is different than the content. The author of the book was not actually al-Ghazālī, who was Sunni, but Muhammad Baqr al-Sadr, who was Shiʿi and whose book was banned outside of prison.
Date:
Between 1980 and 1989
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
A Prisoner’s Life in Abu Ghraib
Middle East & North Africa Collections
"Sumer 2" Notebook