The Mazar of the Seven Maiden
In this article, Tim Grose offers an overview of the Mazar of the Seven Maidens, a place of religious significance in the Uyghur communities of the Turfan region.
Category: Documents
The Cult of Red Martyrs at the Zanbuhu Mosque
Tommaso Previato Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology There is a tendency in scholarly circles to look at Maoist China (1949–76) as an atheist space where religion barely survived the violence of ‘anti-superstition’...
The legend of the “Tomb of the Forty Sages” in Guangzhou
The site called “Ancient Sage mausoleum” (先贤古墓 Xianxian gumu) in Guangzhou, reputed to house the alleged tomb of Sa‘d ibn Abi-Waqqas, is surrounded by many other graves and stelae. Among them is a tomb locally named the “Tomb of the Forty Sages” (四十位先贤碑 Sishi wei xianxian bei), which was restored in 1955 by the People’s Municipal Government of Guangzhou (Yang, 2002: 27).
Life Story of Akhun Bandishoh Sumonzoda (1883-1984), by Sultonbek Aksakolov
Presentation of Tajikistani religious teacher and scholar Bandishoh Sumonzoda (1883–1984), including translated excerpts from a travelogue (2019) by Lutfishohi Dodo in which he related his meeting with Okhon Bandishoh’s family.
Life Story of Khorasan Ata, by Ulan Bigozhin
Translation of the first two pages (4–5) of a short Qazaq hagiography ommemorating Abd-Zhalil Bab (Khorasan Ata) and his shrine complex. Entitled ‘Holy of Holies: Khorasan Ata’ (Aulierdïn Aulesï: Khorasan Ata), it was written by Orazkhan Zhanïsbekov and Ahmet Abutalip.
‘In Mourning of Ishan Hamid Khwaja’ by Ishan Zarab al-Din ‘Karimi’, [2003], by Stéphane A. Dudoignon
Transcription and translation of the poem ‘In Mourning of Ishan Hamid Khwaja’, written in 2003 by Ishan Zarab al-Din ‘Karimi’ in honor of the aforementioned figure of the Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiyya in the south of Tajikistan.
A Wahhabi Ideologist on Shrines in Daghestan (2006), by Vladimir Bobrovnikov
Translation and commentary of fragments of ‘Abdullah Muhammad ad-Dagestani’s book, Litso Sufizma v Svete Ubezhdenii Liudei Sunny i Dzhamaata (Akhl Sunna va Dzhamaa) [The Face of Sufism in the Light of the True Muslims’ Convictions], translated from Arabic into Russian, [Moscow:] Badr, 2006, 607 p.
Sermon of Hajj Muhammad Nūr al Dīn Min Shengguang 敏生光 (1935-2020), by Marie-Paule Hille
Transcription and French and English translation of a sermon excerpted from Min Shengguang’s 敏生光 [Hadj Muhammad Nūr al Dīn] Xinyue zhi guang 新月之光 [The Light of the Crescent], Lanzhou, Gansu minzu chubanshe, 2007.
Monumenta of Master Lingming, by Wang Jianxin
Translation of extracts of a poem by Ma Lingming (1853-1915), excerpted from a hanging scroll dating back from 1953 (Lanzhou).
Dervish Luzha, the Tropoja Mountain’s Ora, 2009, by Gianfranco Bria
This extract summarises the main features of Dervish Luzha’s hagiography. Its author is Nuredin Sadik Lushaj, a scholar of folk traditions from Tropoja (in the north of Albania). The ora mentioned in the title is a figure of northern Albanian mythology, known primarily north of the Drin River.
