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Sekaten

سيكاتن

The Javanese week-long Mawlid celebration in Yogyakarta — gamelan drums and a folk fair before the Great Mosque.

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Southeast Asia
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Local Islams and syncretismSacred time

Overview

The Javanese celebration of the Prophet ﷺ's birthday in Yogyakarta: a week of the beating of the large drums, a popular market in front of the great mosque, and processions from the palace. 1

Description

One of the oldest celebrations of the birthday held continuously in Southeast Asia; a unique Javanese-Islamic blend. 1

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Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· The sacred months· The last ten nights of Ramadan· The first ten days of Dhu al-Hijja· The Hijri calendar· Hilal (the crescent and the lunar month for the law)· Delaying the noon prayer to the cool (ibrad)· The Kawsaj

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Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)

In law, the adhan is announcing the time of an obligatory prayer in set, transmitted words. The jurists differ on its ruling, between a communal obligation and a strongly recommended practice, and on its wording, tarjia, tathwib, the conditions of order, continuity and raised voice, and the qualities of the muezzin: Islam, manhood, sanity and discernment.