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Local Islams and syncretism

Family: Religion and custom · 9 entries

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Event

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

Object

Talismanic shirt
Ottoman shirts inscribed with Qur'anic texts, verses and symbols worn for protection and blessing; examples held at Topkapı and other museums.

Screening Room

The Unknown Saint
2019 CE · 1440 AH†Alaa Eddine Aljem's Moroccan comedy about a thief who buries his loot in a fake grave that becomes a popular shrine — a wry look at folk religiosity.
You Will Die at Twenty
2019 CE · 1440 AH†You Will Die at Twenty.
Xala
1975 CE · 1395 AH†Xala.
Moolaadé
2004 CE · 1425 AH†Moolaadé.
Munafik
2016 CE · 1437 AH†Munafik.
Ceddo
1977 CE · 1397 AH†Ousmane Sembène's Senegalese classic about a village resisting Islam, Christianity and colonialism alike — a pillar of African cinema portraying Islam's arrival with a critical eye.
The Wedding of Zein
1976 CE · 1396 AH†The Wedding of Zein.

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