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Women's Ecstatic Prayer Begins, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:
Here, the recitation concludes and the prayer begins. This shift marks a transition from the singular naming of prophets and sheikhs, in the form of call and response, to a more communal moment. The prayer-leader petitions God and the assembly responds, “Inshallah,” roughly translated, “God willing.” The petitions recorded here: to visit Mecca, to circle the Ka’aba, to drink the waters of Mecca’s holy springs.
Date:
30-Sep-16
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Kirkuk’s Great Sufi Mosque
Women's Ecstatic Prayer Begins, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

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

Description:
Different women engage with the prayers at various intensities throughout the afternoon. These women, a couple of whom were lost in ecstasy not an hour previously, sit against the wall, on the rugs and cushions that line the room, nodding in time with the singing and daff, mouthing certain portions of the prayer.
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 (9)

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

Description:
The women are now seated. The women playing daff and tapl cluster around the Sheikha, seated not on the ground, but on a chair, while the worshippers assemble themselves roughly around. This begins a different phase of worship in which the woman voice prayers together, seated. The women chant, “Jamil, oh, Jamil,” which is a man’s name, but can also mean “beautiful,” a name for God.
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 (7)

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 (3)

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
Women Mid-Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (3)

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 (19)

Description:
The Sheikha is not the only woman with prayer beads. Many women in the assembly who aren’t accompanying the prayers with the tapl or the daff have their prayer beads in their hands, moving each bead with each prayer, similar to how a rosary might be used. Too, children continue to move around the worship. A young girl has moved to the couch. The boy continues to sit on his mother’s lap, though he began the worship over on that couch. Though the prayer is incomplete, this snippet goes, “…of this Kurdistan. 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
Women in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (19)

Women in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (15)

Description:
The prayer continues around the Sheikha, whose beads can be seen dangling into the frame of the clip. The notebook is passed from singer to singer, but many know the prayers by heart and add their voices. The prayer goes, “If you wonder whether I have come for a picnic, I am ill and hopeless. I have come to the door of God’s Prophet, the door of forgiveness.”
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 (15)

Women in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (14)

Description:
The women leading prayers sit gathered around the Sheikha. A woman playing the daff speaks with another woman beside her, also keeping time with the daff. A woman greets another who has entered the room outside the frame of the video by putting her hand to her head in a silent motion that means, “I put you above my eyes” or, even more respectfully, “I put you above my head.” As well, the notebook that the women gather the prayers in features prominently in this clip. One woman is clearly reading from the pages that she holds in her hands. She sings, “I moan for you, I sacrifice myself for you, God’s Prophet, I love anyone who loves you…”
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 (14)

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 in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016

Description:
The Sheikha begins to call on God, again falling into a loose call and response pattern. Even though there is a clear call (Allah!) and a clear response (Hey!), many women call on God with the Sheikha, using her same hand motions. This ritual is not common among all Muslims and may have developed over time as particular either to Qadiri Sufis or to the Talabani Tekiye.
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

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

"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

کنسرت سبز U2

Description:
ویدیو تصاویری را از کنسرت U2 که در آن‌ نور و جلوه‌های سبز در سراسر صحنه در همبستگی‌ با مردم ایران قرار گرفته شده بودند. U2 همین کار را در دیگر کنسرتهای خود نیز کرده است.
Date:
7/3/2009
۱۳۸۸/۰۴/۱۲
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Green Movement (Iran)
Middle East & North Africa Collections
کنسرت سبز U2

کنسرت سبز U2

Description:
ویدیو تصاویری را از کنسرت U2 که در آن‌ نور و جلوه‌های سبز در سراسر صحنه در همبستگی‌ با مردم ایران قرار گرفته شده بودند. U2 همین کار را در دیگر کنسرتهای خود نیز کرده است.
Date:
9/23/2009
۱۳۸۸/۰۷/۰۱
Resource Type:
moving image
Collection:
Green Movement (Iran)
Middle East & North Africa Collections
کنسرت سبز U2