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Sacred Montreal

9/13/2022

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 Here is another of my Islamic poems chanted and recorded live and lo-fi last weekend:​
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Islamic Chant in English

9/6/2022

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This (We Praise and Glorify the One) is the unedited recording of the first time I performed this poem from a series of Islamic chants I have been working on. It was recorded on August 28th, 2022, at the wonderful zawiya of Sidi Nezar, in Mississauga. The performance still needs to be fine-tuned but it was a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed singing it together for Allah's sake.


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Expressions of Sufism in Canada

2/4/2022

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Honoured to have co-written a chapter with my mentor Meena Sharify-Funk, on Sufism in Canada, in a book edited and written by so many esteemed friends and colleagues.

This is the book:
Producing Islam(s) in Canada: On Knowledge, Positionality, and Politics
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My Dissertation is Available Online

8/28/2020

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My dissertation has been published online. To access it, please click here: Tradition as Flow: Decolonial Currents in the Muslim Atlantic.
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Scenes from Morocco and Spain

10/19/2019

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Here is a slideshow with photos from my travels in Morocco and Southern Spain in 2018 and 2019. Enjoy!
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Islam, Coloniality and Tradition - Summer course in Morocco 2019

10/17/2018

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I am honoured to be teaching this summer course in Morocco with my mentor and friend, Professor Ali Zaidi.

It is a full-credit course for Laurier University undergraduates , offered jointly by the Global Studies Department and the Department of Religion and Culture.

Overview:

​Spring 2019, May  20-24 at Laurier
June 1-18 in Morocco

Stay in the capital, Rabat

Take excursions to Casablanca, Tangiers, Fez, Meknes, and UNESCO sites

Experience Ramadan and Eid during 5-day homestay

Witness the effects of coloniality, capitalism and the refugee-crisis


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Islam

7/22/2015

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Islam

Pacification and surrender to the divine

Looking for the moon as a sign

And following the sun as it crosses the sky

It's not about making time for some worship

It's about synchronizing my time to the divine

Following the holy flow

The drumbeats and chanting of the cosmos

Paralyzing the limiting mind

Performing acts that first seem senseless to the selfish senses

Preparing to break free

By the grace of Allah

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Chapter published in a new book

4/9/2015

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I am happy to announce that the book Sufism and Social Integration is now published. With 23 chapters including mine on decolonial Sufism as well as a preface by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.  http://www.amazon.com/Sufism-Social-Integration-Connecting-Boundaries/dp/1567444326/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428370251&sr=8-1&keywords=sufism+and+social+integration
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MIDDLE EASTERN POETRY WEBSITE

3/23/2015

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I prefer the term 'North Africa and Southwest Asia' (NASWA) to  'the Middle East' (the region is only the Middle East from a Western European perspective but not, say, from a Chinese one). Nevertheless, despite its problematic title, this website is a very good source of poetry from the region, updated regularly with new entries. Any effort to celebrate the beauty and diversity of the cultures found in this region is to be encouraged at a time when they are under existential threat from violent extremists of all sorts, from inside the region and from abroad.

Here are the links:
 http://middleeasternpoetry.tumblr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/middleeasternpoetry
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MOULAY BRAHIM

3/10/2015

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The mausoleum of Moulay Ibrahim can be reached by car after a 90-minute drive south of Marrakesh, in the majestic High Atlas Mountains, whose snowy peaks are visible from the red city. Here is a quick biography of the saint followed by a gallery of photos I took during my trip there last Sunday.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulay_Brahim

Moulay Brahim
or Moulay Brahim ben Ahmed Mghari (died 1661), also called Tayr Lejbel (Berber for 'bird of the mountain'), was a well-known Moroccan sufi saint. He was the grandson of Abdallah ben Houssein al-Hassani, who was the founder of the zawiya of Tameslouht, one of the greatest Zawiyyas in the region of Marrakech (founded ca. 1525). The zawiyya of moulay Ben Brahim was founded in 1628 during the reign of sultan Zidan Abu Maali in the village 'Kik', since called 'Moulay Brahim'. It lies a few kilometers to the west of Tameslouht.

References

  • Mouna Hachim, "Maroc: Au-delà des Moussems, la vie des saints" retrieved on 04--22-2008
  • Mouna Hachim; "Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Maroc" histoires et légendes, Casablancha, 2007, 500 p
  • Deverdun G., "Tamesluht (Tameslouht)", the history of a religious center, Encyclopédie Berbère, 1986, no 38

THE ROAD TO MOULAY IBRAHIM (photo gallery)
And here is the mausoleum of Moulay Ibrahim:
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This is his daughter Lalla Mahla's tomb, in an adjacent room:
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