Ritual Prayer (Salat, Namaz)

Call to prayer (Sunni) in Andalusi style

Call to prayer (Shi`i) from Iran

Takbir with Turkish inflection (Kani Karaca)

Qur'an Recitation
The Sounds of Islam

Pilgrimage to Mecca

Malcolm X on Hajj featuring interviews with Saudi royals

El Hajj (short impressionistic views of Hajj)

Other Pilgrimage Sites

Flash Presentation: Al Askariyah Shrine Tragedy, Samarah, Iraq

The shrines at Jannat al-Baqi` (Medina) before and after the 1925 demolition by the Saudis

Persian lament at Jannat al-Baqi` by Hajj Aminifar

Tombs of the Prophets (Prof. Brannon Wheeler)

Devotional performance: the Burda (Cloak) poem of al-Busiri

Qaseeda Burda Shareef (5 Languages)  (PTV, 5 min.)

Qaseeda Burda Documentary  (Zaytuna Institute, 27 min.)
Qasida Burda (Hamza Mahmood, 4 min.)

Shi`i lamentation ritual

Muharram Procession 1427 (New York, February 2006); see also Newsday report on violent Sunni protest

Multiple Shi`i performance genres (www.zainab.org)

Mzuri Bibi Fatima [a.s.] by Madrasatul Mujahideen - Mtongwe, Mombasa [Swahili]


Sufi Pilgrimage, Sama` (listening to music) and Dhikr (Zikr, recitation)

Pilgrimage to the shrine of Baba Farid, Pakistan (in Arabic, from al-`Arabiyya TV, 4 parts), an ethnographic documentary by Arabs who find these South Asian
Sufi rituals quite exotic.

Basant (Y media, Ektara India, 12 min 54 sec), Sufi festival of Spring in India. An annual festival held at the shrine of the 12th century Sufi saint Nizamuddin Aulia and his disciple Amir Khusrau
ABIDA PARVEEN- Sufi Music Series (Epicflow Films, 2 min 41 sec), Punjabi poem by Bullhi Shah

Chechen Qadiri Zikr

Burhamiah Hadrah (burhamiah.co.nr, 11 min 21 sec), ceremonies of an Egyptian Sufi order, from a Malaysian web site hosted on the Pacific island of Nauru

Hadra dhikr with Shaykh Abd al-Rahman Shaghouri (Damascus, 2002, 19 min 36 sec).

Whirling Dervishes of Istanbul (Christopher Racette, 15 min 28 sec)

Films on Sufism at UNC Media Resource Center

Pilgrimage to shrine of Ahmadou Bamba (Tuba, Senegal)

Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishty(R.A),Ajmer,Rajasthan,India

Sufi Music Recordings

Sufi Music from Sind and Punjab

Radio Darvish (Persian music online)

Kereshmeh Records (Persian)

Sufi Music (National Geographic)

World Spirit Music


CARL W. ERNST
AUDIO/VIDEO RESOURCES
ON ISLAMIC RITUAL AND PRACTICE:
PRAYER, PILGRIMAGE, POETRY, AND MUSIC 

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