"
IN THE COURTYARD OF THE BELOVED is a visual and aural portrait of
Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah, a Sufi shrine in New Delhi, India. Made from over 18,000 still images and ambient sounds recorded on-site, rapid-fire bursts of kaleidoscopic imagery assemble into fractured collages where a moment expands outwards and then converges back into itself, fleshing out a three-dimensional rendering of place."
posted by gman
on Oct 7, 2010 -
12 comments
"White Muslim." Converting to
which Islam? Most of the new Muslims I read about in the usual media feel impelled to join the
"orthodox" Sunni (if not outright
Wahhabi) variety, as if there is no other. But, as many of you no doubt already know, a non-negligible minority of the world's Muslims are
Shi'ite, whose biggest
"Twelver" branch was made famous by this
Ayatollah.
To further refute the image of "monolithic" Islam,within the Shia minority are a minority known as
"Seveners" or
Ismailis , whose
biggest branch is run by this
gentleman , whose
conception of Islam as
"a thinking, spiritual faith, one that teaches compassion and tolerance" seems more congenial to the self-selected strata inclined to, oh, post to MetaFilter, perhaps especially to "Secular Humanist" atheists like me. (I'll bet some of you can even relate to his
divorce.) Further reading from these links (perhaps with Google's help) should further belie much of the dumbed-down propaganda "mainstream" Americans are spoon-fed about Islam, showing the kaleidoscopic nature of one of today's One True Faiths. (And then there are the almost Zen-like
Sufis, and ....)
posted by davy
on Dec 7, 2004 -
58 comments
A single photograph taken in 1913 of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké—the Santé Serigne Touba, founder of the Sufi sect known as the Mouride (Murid) Way, followed by millions in Senegal and elsewhere—when he was put under house arrest by the French, has provided remarkable consistency to the sect's iconography. Images of the cheikh:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9, and
more. Story on an
art exhibit and the
web site of the exhibit, including more images of the cheikh. History of Bamba's life
in French and
in English. More on
Muridism.
posted by Mo Nickels
on Sep 6, 2003 -
4 comments
The Pakistani Sufi-Rock band
Junoon have released their new English single "No More" which remembers the innocent victims of 9/11 and terrorism everywhere. Penned by
Polar Livine of Polarity 1 and
Salman Ahmad of Junoon the song can be heard/downloaded at the
Junoon Website along with they lyrics.
They might not be household names in the US but they are big in the subcontinent and elsewhere. They have appeared on US media many times including
NPR took a deeper look in their role in presenting another face of Pakistan.
Together Salman Ahmed,
Brian'o'Connell, and
Ali Azmat have relentlessly called for
peace between India & Pakistan and raised enough controversy domestically to be banned by several "Democratic" governments in Pakistan.
posted by adnanbwp
on Sep 11, 2002 -
8 comments
