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Walking piece Marŝarto24 2024

Walking to the Maqam

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The Qarafaa, City of the dead, below the Moqatam hill in Cairo
27G8+C4 El Khalifa, Egypt
90 minutes

cemetery

Collection · 13 items

Religion

Collection · 17 items

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Egypt

Country · 1 sub-regions · 15 items

cemetery

Collection · 13 items

Religion

Collection · 17 items

Regions

Egypt

Country · 1 sub-regions · 15 items
It's a walk through a historic Egyptian Cementary towards a Maqam (Shrine) of a Sufi Saint Ibn Ata’ Allah al-Iskandari, two artists took this walk, for an hour and half, reading parts from Sufi's book Al-Hikam al-‘Ata`iyyah.

It’s a walk through a historic Egyptian Cementary towards a Maqam (Shrine) of a Sufi Saint Ibn Ata’ Allah al-Iskandari, two artists took this walk, for an hour and half, reading parts from Sufi’s book Al-Hikam al-‘Ata`iyyah.

Maqam in Arabic has various definitions among them, a shrine, built on a site that is associated with a religious figure or saint, mainly the place where a saint resides. Sufis and common people visits Maqams as it can be a source of peace for them, it’s believed that these saints had supernatural powers (Karamat) and divine blessings granted by god, it’s a place where angels gather. People visits these Maqams to receive divine blessing (barakah). During the walk towards the Maqam of Ibn Ata’ Allah al-Iskandari, Eman Abdou and Hatice Kauffman read parts from Ibn Ata’ Allah al-Iskandari’s famous symbolic book and moved quietly through the spiritual cemetery.

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Eman Abdou & Hatice Kaufmann

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Abdou, E. (2024). Walking to the Maqam. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/walking-to-the-maqam/

slare

To saunter, to be slovenly (The Dialect of Cumberland – Robert Ferguson, 1873). Rarely used in Cumbria now but has a meaning of to walk slowly, to amble, to walk with no particular purpose. Used for example in the ballad Billy Watson’s Lonnin written by Alexander Craig Gibson of Harrington, Cumbria in 1872 “Yan likes to trail ow’r t’ Sealand-fields an’ watch for t’ commin’ tide, Or slare whoar t’Green hes t’ Ropery an’ t’ Shore of ayder side “(Translation: One likes to trail over to Sealand Fields and watch for the coming tide, Or slare over to where the Green has the ropery and the Shore on the other side) Billy Watson’s Lonning (lonning – dialect for lane) still exists and can be found at Harrington, Cumbria.

Added by Alan Cleaver
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